## Decompression function

Hi,
I'm trying to assemble a function describing the decompression of an ideal gas in a infinitely long box of side L. The gas is initially confined in a volume $$L^3$$ at one end.

So far I got the following formula which gives the time the i-th particle takes to reach the barrier at x=L:

$$t_i = \frac{2 L - x_i}{\overline{v} \cos(a_i)}$$

where

$$x_i$$ is a random variable between 0 and L
$$a_i$$ is a random variable between 0 and $$\pi /2$$
$$\overline{v}$$ is the average speed of a gas particle

What I need is $$n(t) = f(N, L, \overline{v},t)$$

where

N is the total number of particles
n(t) is the the number of particles in the original volume $$L^3$$ after time t

Please, help. I'm stuck a long time in this.

Thanks
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