1. Brownian Motion
... obtained this way were always a few microns per second for grains of the order of a micron. But Perrin believes that these evaluations of Brownian motion were completely wrong. The reasoning behind his belief was that the trajectories are confused and complicated so often and so rapidly that it is pretty much impossible to follow them. Similarly, the apparent mean speed ... . He also states that Einstein and Smoluchowski chose, as the magnitude characteristic of the agitation, the "rectilinear" segment joining the starting and end points. More frequently than not, this line will clearly ...
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