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Definition of Kinetic theory
1. Noun. (physics) a theory that gases consist of small particles in random motion.
Generic synonyms: Scientific Theory
Category relationships: Natural Philosophy, Physics
Specialized synonyms: Kinetic Theory Of Heat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kinetic Theory
Literary usage of Kinetic theory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... is Now the kinetic energy of agitation of a molecule as deduced from the value
of e herewith obtained, and the kinetic theory equation, ..."
2. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1879)
"237, second edition), reference is made to the diffusion of the gases of the
atmosphere under the kinetic theory, and here it would seem as if the influence ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"On some Difficulties connected with the kinetic theory of Gases. By GH BRYAN, Sc.D.
The recent attacks of M. Bertrand on Maxwell's investigations emphasise ..."
4. Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics: With Special by Joseph William Mellor (1902)
"The more fruitful applications of the theory of probability to natural processes
has been in connection with the kinetic theory of gases and the " law ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1921)
"At the Minneapolis meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science I had the honor to outline " A kinetic theory ..."
6. The Dynamical Theory of Gases by James Hopwood Jeans (1904)
"In the language of the kinetic theory, both energies are equally kinetic. Let us
suppose that the containing vessel, which has so far been moving with a ..."
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