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Validity of the Multi-Species Navier-Stokes Equations for real gases
I'm wondering what are the validity limits of Multi-Species Navier-Stokes equations. I'm aware of the limit for rarefied gases. But is there any new limit that arises in the context of real gases?
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Momentum change in colisions (Drude Model)
A particle suffers elastic colisions with scattering centers with a probability of colision per unit time $\lambda$. After a colision the particle is in a direction caracterized by a solid angle ...
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Confined in a box, what is the average distance between a particle hitting a side?
This particle, alone in the box, at a constant velocity $v$, travels in straight lines until hitting a side of the hollow cube, bouncing off in a random direction independent of incident angle (I know ...
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How does the volume change affect an adiabatic process?
A gas consisting of rigid diatomic molecules was initially under standard conditions. Then the gas was compressed adiabatically, 5 times the original volume. Find the mean KE of rotating molecules ...
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Height of a piston in a heated cylinder containing H2O
I'm a first time user and I hope I won't be too enigmatic asking the following question:
I have a cylinder (radius= $6$ $\text{cm}$) with a frictionless piston on top of it and inside $30$ $g$ of ...
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Simple: What do these ballistic impact numbers represent?
I bought physics for game programmers, found here, today to study ballistic impact, but I'm confused as to where a few numbers are coming from. I'm basically looking to understand what the values ...
