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The 56 pages that link to Kinetic theory of gases, each with the reason it gives.

• James Clerk MaxwellRelated: Maxwell derived a probability distribution for molecular speeds, a foundation of the theory.

• PressureNarrower topic: Molecular collisions with container walls produce gas pressure.

• Statistical mechanicsBroader topic: It was a central early setting for deriving macroscopic laws from molecular motion.

• ThermodynamicsRelated: It offers a microscopic account of pressure and temperature for gases.

• Ideal gas lawNarrower topic: It derives pressure and temperature from particle motion, giving the molecular basis for PV = nRT.

• Fluid mechanicsCompared with: It resolves fluids into molecules, while continuum fluid mechanics treats them as smooth fields.

• Plasma physicsRelated: It provides a microscopic description when fluid averages hide important particle behavior.

• Evaporative coolingRelated: It explains how faster molecules can escape a liquid surface.

• Dynamical frictionNarrower topic: Chandrasekhar adapted statistical encounter methods to gravitational systems with many particles.

• Virial theoremRelated: The theorem emerged from mechanics and statistical reasoning about particle motion.

• Partial pressureRelated: It connects molecular motion to the pressure exerted by gas particles.

• Ludwig BoltzmannRelated: It supplied the molecular picture Boltzmann used to derive gas laws and transport behavior.

• Boltzmann distributionNarrower topic: The distribution grew from attempts to describe molecular energies in gases.

• AtomismRelated: It derives macroscopic pressure and temperature from constituent motion.

• Ideal gasNarrower topic: Its assumptions derive the ideal gas law from molecular motion.

• Mean free pathNarrower topic: Mean free path connects molecular collision rates to macroscopic gas behavior.

• Thermal energyNarrower topic: It connects molecular motion to measurable thermal behavior.

• Boyle's lawRelated: It connects molecular collisions with the pressure that changes as volume changes.

• Dalton's law of partial pressuresNarrower topic: Its account of molecular collisions explains why component pressures add.

• Fluid dynamicsCompared with: It describes gases at particle scale, complementing continuum fluid models when those break down.

• Van der Waals equationRelated: It supplied the molecular picture behind correcting pressure and volume.

• Real gasNarrower topic: Its ideal assumptions make the source of real-gas corrections explicit.

• Daniel BernoulliRelated: Bernoulli used molecular motion to connect gas pressure with particle impacts.

• Mikhail LomonosovRelated: He used particle motion to explain heat and the elastic properties of gases.

• Constitutive equationCompared with: It can derive continuum constitutive relations rather than postulate them empirically.

• Maxwell–Boltzmann distributionRelated: It interprets the distribution as a description of molecular motion in gases.

• Drude modelNarrower topic: Drude adapts its particle-and-collision reasoning to electrons in a solid.

• No-slip conditionRelated: At low densities, molecular transport can undermine the continuum assumptions behind no-slip.

• Avogadro's lawNarrower topic: Its molecular picture gives a physical framework for comparing gas samples by particle number.

• Boltzmann equationNarrower topic: The Boltzmann equation is a central evolution law within this theory.

• James Prescott JouleRelated: Joule investigated gas behavior and helped connect molecular motion with temperature and energy.

• Gas lawsNarrower topic: Provides a particle-level account of pressure and temperature in gas laws.

• Gas pressureNarrower topic: It derives pressure from particle momentum transferred to container walls.

• Maxwell–Boltzmann statisticsNarrower topic: The statistics grew from attempts to derive gas behavior from molecular motion.

• GasNarrower topic: It connects the motion of gas particles to pressure, temperature, and volume.

• Joseph Louis Gay-LussacRelated: It explains why gas pressure rises with temperature when volume stays fixed.

• Molecular beamNarrower topic: It connects molecular speeds and collision rates to the conditions needed for a beam.

• Granular flowCompared with: It inspires models of dilute granular flow, though grain collisions dissipate energy.

• Maxwell's demonNarrower topic: The demon operates on individual molecules, making the theory’s microscopic view central to the puzzle.

• Loschmidt's paradoxNarrower topic: Loschmidt and Boltzmann debated whether its reversible dynamics could account for thermodynamic irreversibility.

• Charles's lawNarrower topic: It explains how increased molecular speed raises pressure unless expansion keeps pressure steady.

• Gay-Lussac's law (gas pressure)Narrower topic: Heating raises particle kinetic energy, increasing momentum transferred to the container walls.

• Jean PerrinRelated: Its molecular picture supplied predictions Perrin sought to test experimentally.

• Johannes Diderik van der WaalsNarrower topic: Van der Waals extended molecular reasoning beyond the ideal assumptions of the theory.

• Equilibrium thermodynamicsCompared with: It models molecular motion and transport, which equilibrium thermodynamics does not resolve.

• Linear response theoryCompared with: It often derives transport from distribution dynamics rather than equilibrium response correlations.

• Amedeo AvogadroRelated: It offers a later physical account of particle counts underlying gas-volume relationships.

• Astrophysical fluid dynamicsCompared with: It replaces fluid closure when particle distributions cannot be summarized by local fluid variables.

• Collision frequencyNarrower topic: Collision frequency is one microscopic rate used to derive bulk gas behavior.

• Solid mechanicsCompared with: It derives material behavior from particle statistics instead of continuum stress fields.