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Why is the $\langle v_{x}^{2} \rangle=\frac{1}{3} \langle v^2 \rangle$?
For a randomly moving particle. Or, I suppose that 1/3 could generalise to 1/n, where n is the non rotational degrees of freedom for that particle.
Related reference Kinetic Theory of Gasses.
