Diffusion and Brownian motion analogies in the migration of atoms, animals, men and ideas
The macroscopic laws of diffusion were laid down for the case of liquids by Adolf Fick 150 years ago who realised the analogy of diffusion and heat conduction. 100 years ago Einstein and Smoluchowski put up the equation named after these scientists teaching us how to trace down the motion of a singl...
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Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
2016
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