What Is the Origin of the Constant e in the Maxwell Distribution of Speeds?

[casanova2528]

There's so many derivation of the Maxwell distribution of speeds. Does anybody know a website or a textbook in which one can more easily find meanings behind each of the variables? For instance, where did the "e" come from?


Please help!

 

[mathman]

Each of the components of velocity has a normal distribution.
The standard normal distribution has a density function e^-x2/(2pi)^1/2.

 

[nasu]

There's so many derivation of the Maxwell distribution of speeds. Does anybody know a website or a textbook in which one can more easily find meanings behind each of the variables? For instance, where did the "e" come from?


Please help!

e is not a variable but a constant.

 

[casanova2528]

e is not a variable but a constant.

oops...yeah...i know. Nevertheless, how did the e constant come into this equation?