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The kinetic theory is based on the hypothesis that all substances, including gases, are composed of molecules. Although the motion of the individual molecules cannot be followed even with the aid of the most powerful microscopes, the molecular hypothesis is nevertheless well supported. Complex polyatomic molecules, as well as individual atoms, ions, protons, electrons, etc., may all be treated as molecules.
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*More detailed information about the interaction of molecules may be found, for example, in the following monographs: J. O. Hirschfelder, C. F. Curtiss, and R. B. Bird, “Molecular Theory of Gases and Liquids,” Wiley, New York, 1954;
J. B. Hasted, “Physics of Atomic Collisions,” Butterworth, London, 1964.
*See, for example, the previously cited monograph of Hirschfelder et al. tin what follows, we shall designate the distance between molecules and the interaction potential between them by r and U, respectively.
*See, for example, L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshits, “Statistical Physics,” Nauka, Moscow, 1964. [English translation of an earlier edition: Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.,1958.]
*See, for example, J. O. Hirschfelder, C. F. Curtiss, and R. B. Bird, “Molecular Theory of Gases and liquids,” Wiley, New York, 1954;
S. Chapman and T. Cowling, “Mathematical Theory of Nonuniform Gases,” Cambridge University Press, London, 1952.
*See, for example, L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshits, “Mechanics,” Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1960.
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Kogan, M.N. (1969). Introduction. In: Rarefied Gas Dynamics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6381-9_1
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