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In view of the current interest in the theory of gases proposed by Bernoulli (Selection 3), Joule, Kronig, Clausius (Selections 8 and 9) and others, a mathematical investigation of the laws of motion of a large number of small, hard, and perfectly elastic spheres acting on one another only during impact seems desirable.
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J. C. Maxwell (1860) studied this question.
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