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The three assumptions underlying kinetic theory mentioned at the start of Chap. 3 not only relate to kinetics of a molecular gas, or a colloidal mist of droplets in air, but equally apply to colloids that perform Brownian motion in a solvent.
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Known for Buys-Ballot’s law which states that if a person on the Northern Hemisphere cycles against the wind, atmospheric pressure is higher at her left than at her right.
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Named after the French physicist Jean Claude Eugene Péclet (1793–1857).
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T. Lie et al., Science 328, 1673 (2010).
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For further discussion of ballistic versus diffusive motion see: P. N. Pusey, Brownian Motion Goes Ballistic, Science 332, 802 (2011).
For a treatise of colloidal timescales in relation to dynamic light scattering see: P. N. Pusey and R. J. A. Tough in R. Pecora (ed.) Dynamic Light Scattering; applications of Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (Springer US, 1985).
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Philipse, A.P. (2018). A Tale of Ten Time Scales. In: Brownian Motion. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98053-9_4
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