Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
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ISBN: 9781259587399
Author: Eugene Hecht
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17, Problem 31SP
The rms speed of nitrogen molecules in the air at S.T.P. is about 490 m/s. Find their mean free path and the average time between collisions. The radius of a nitrogen molecule can be taken to be
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