Heat and Thermodynamics

13.12 Law of Distribution of Molecular Velocities According to Classical or Maxwell–Boltzmann Statistics

The number of cells a_t at the disposal of the number of particles of energy lying between ∈_t and ∈_t+d∈_t

 

 

Let us put

 

 

We have

 

 

From Eq. 13.46,

 

 

 

or

 

 

Putting

 

 

in Eq. 13.50, we have

 

 

and

 

 

or