Recent content by corey2157

I know this question is 7 years old... Without considering the method you used to arrive at the answer, I think you have used flawed logic in your dismissal of the result. A force of 181 pounds may well cause that part to fail is that force is applied for a long enough amount of time. But...

Thanks Jano. You've given me more food for thought.

I wasn't thinking of the intermolecular forces. I am thinking about the collisions between molecules, and wonder just what about those collisions give the distribution its positive skew. The following link from MIT OCW may explain my question - I just don't understand the math well enough to...

Well that is true, the theory has an explicit assumption that the molecules are spherical. And that is a reasonable assumption since molecules of a gas are more or less spherical. But is the spherical shape factored into the equation; that is my question. If somehow 1 meter long carbon...

I have been trying to figure out if, and if so, just how is the shape of the molecules in a gas is taken into account by the Maxwell-Boltzman distribution. I know the assumption is perfect spheres, but still, a square hit and a glancing blow on a pool table yield different results. My...