PlanetPhysics/Mean Translational Kinetic Energy

The mean translational kinetic energy is a result from the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution and is given by

$K_{avg}={\frac {1}{2}}m{v^{2}}_{rms}$

A more useful form of this equation is in terms of temperature. Temperature is brought in through the root mean square speed derived in the kinetic thoery of gases

$v_{rms}={\sqrt {\frac {3RT}{M}}}$

where R is the gas constand

$R=8.31\,[{\frac {J}{mol*K}}]$

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