Part I. Life. Introduction / Raymond Flood -- Maxwell at Aberdeen / John S. Reid -- Maxwell at King's College, London / John S. Reid -- Cambridge and building the Cavendish Laboratory / Isobel ...
NMAH copy 39088019916741 purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Chronology: principal events in Maxwell's life -- Cast of characters: Maxwell's relations and close friends -- 1 ...
The Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution describes the probability distribution of molecular speeds in a sample of an ideal gas. Introduced over 150 years ago, it is based on the work of Scottish physicist ...