Talk:PlanetPhysics/Mean Translational Kinetic Energy

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

\begin{equation} K_{avg} = \frac{1}{2} m {v^2}_{rms} \end{equation}

A more useful form of this equation is in terms of \htmladdnormallink{temperature}{http://planetphysics.us/encyclopedia/BoltzmannConstant.html}. Temperature is brought in through the root mean \htmladdnormallink{square}{http://planetphysics.us/encyclopedia/PiecewiseLinear.html} \htmladdnormallink{speed}{http://planetphysics.us/encyclopedia/Velocity.html} derived in the kinetic thoery of gases

\begin{equation} v_{rms} = \sqrt{\frac{3RT}{M}} \end{equation}

where R is the gas constand

\begin{equation} R = 8.31 \, [ \frac{J}{mol * K} ] \end{equation}

and more to come ...

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