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J. C. Maxwell has calculated the velocity distribution of the particles in a gas. For the simplest possible system it is a Boltzmann distribution. In a system of no particles the number of particles nE that have kinetic energy > E is given by (2.25)nE=no(2/π)(kT)−3/2∫E∞Ee...