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The lecturer did not explain this for some reason.
Assuming that we have a gass where all the particles have a certain absolute velocity v. Directions of v vector are random though, giving velocity vector a uniform direction distribution. That means that a velocity vector of any random particle has equal probability to point in any direction. But what if we observe this gas from a very far distance ( like atmosphere of a star): we can then only observe the radial velocities of particles. That means that we would observe all velocities in the interval [-v,v]. But the question is what would be the distribution that we would observe (particles per velocity curve)? for example which velocity would be most prominent? Would it also be a uniform curve?-thats what lecturer claimed in haste.
Assuming that we have a gass where all the particles have a certain absolute velocity v. Directions of v vector are random though, giving velocity vector a uniform direction distribution. That means that a velocity vector of any random particle has equal probability to point in any direction. But what if we observe this gas from a very far distance ( like atmosphere of a star): we can then only observe the radial velocities of particles. That means that we would observe all velocities in the interval [-v,v]. But the question is what would be the distribution that we would observe (particles per velocity curve)? for example which velocity would be most prominent? Would it also be a uniform curve?-thats what lecturer claimed in haste.