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Nuffield Physics: Molecules and Motion
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, ‘Molecules and Motion’ was originally written to provide an extended look at one of the central topics of Year Five of the Nuffield Physics course. It was also recommended as supplementary reading for the Unit on Change and Chance in Nuffield Advanced Physics. The book is about ‘explaining' things. It is about the kind of explaining that scientists do when they make up a theory. The book describes the emergence of the kinetic theory of gases and the role of chance, randomness and averaging in this theory.
Contents
Introduction Chapter 1: Molecules and some facts about gases
Chapter 2: Motion is added to the theory
Chapter 3: The speed of a molecule
Chapter 4: A pause to look ahead
Chapter 5: On going nowhere in particular
Chapter 6: How big is an air molecule?
Chapter 7: The Avogadro constant
Chapter 8: Molecules in motion Postscript: Laws out of chaos
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