Max (not so) well Boltzmann

Wednesday 8 April 2015


I just had a neat idea for an investigation based on an Algodoo simulation. Would a large number (56) of perfectly elastic balls bouncing around in a box have a Maxwell Boltzmann distribution of KE. I made the simulation, paused the motion and measured the KE of each particle. I then discovered how to use Excel to calculate the frequency for different ranges of KE and plotted a graph. Not very convincing.


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