THE difficulty of reconciling line spectra with the kinetic theory of gases, has been referred to by Prof. Fitzgerald (NATURE, January 3, p. 221). The following considerations show that it is ...

THE difficulties in the way of harmonising the spectroscopic phenomena of heated gases with the conclusions of the Boltzmann-Maxwell theorem of distribution of kinetic energy, appear to me to have ...

The kinetic theory model can be used to explain the properties of solids, liquids and gases by considering the molecules they are made from and their motion. For gases, the kinetic theory model ...