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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Thermodynamics_and_Statistical_Mechanics/Supplemental_Modules_(Thermodynamics_and_Statistical_Mechanics)/Thermodynamics/1.12%3A_Brownian_Motion
      This, however, misunderstands the nature of the motion: a molecule will bounce off the sphere around 10 20 times per second, and although that only makes a tiny difference to the sphere’s velocity, in...This, however, misunderstands the nature of the motion: a molecule will bounce off the sphere around 10 20 times per second, and although that only makes a tiny difference to the sphere’s velocity, in one hundredth of a second the average imbalance, √N, will be of order 10 9 , enough to make a change in a small sphere’s velocity.

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