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MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu 5.62 Physical Chemistry II Spring 2008 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms.5.62 Spring 2008 Lecture #28 Page 1 Kinetic Theory of Gases: Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution “Collision Theory” was invented by Maxwell (1831 - 1879) and Boltzmann (1844 - 1906) in the mid to late 19th century. Viciously attacked until ~1900-1910, when Einstein and others showed (1910) that it explained many new experiments. It is key to describing collisions in dilute gases which kinetic theory relates to transport properties such as diffusion and viscosity. Collision Theory provides an alternative to standard Statistical Mechanics for the computation of thermodynamic quantities. In Statistical Mechanics, we make simplifying assumptions about energy levels, degeneracies, and inter-particle interactions in order to compute Q(N,V,T). In Collision Theory, we start with the Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity distribution for a gas, then compute everything from Newton’s Laws. Stoss-zahl ansatz: each collision is independent of previous events. Get a classical mechanical picture for the properties of gases: * pressure * transport (mean free path, thermal conductivity, diffusion, viscosity, electrical conductivity) * reactions. We begin with the usual independent, distinguishable particle kinetic energy distribution function. Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Function For a single free particle the distribution of energy is proportional to the kinetic energy. Thus: F!v( )! e"mv22kT= e"m2kTvx2+vy2+vz2( ). 4/22/08 5:33 PM5.62 Spring 2008 Lecture #28 Page 2 The velocity is a three dimensional vector with components along the Cartesian coordinates: !v = vx,vy,vz( ). The values of the three velocity components are uncorrelated and each velocity component takes on values between !" to +". F!v( )is the probability density for finding that a gas molecule has a velocity in the range . This probability distribution must be properly normalized. !v to !v+d!v; here d!v = dvxdvydvz F!v( )!"+"#d!v = 1 = C!1e!mvx22kT!"+"#dvx$%&&'())e!mvy22kT!"+"#dvy$%&&'())e!mvz22kT!"+"#dvz$%&&'())where C is the normalization constant. This involves three Gaussian integrals of the form: e!"x20#$dx =12%"C =2!kTm"#$%&'32We find the normalization constant to be . The normalized Maxwell Boltzmann distribution for molecular velocities is: F!v( )d!v =m2!kT"#$%&'32e(mv22kTdvxdvydvz . This is a three dimensional probability density. Since the gas dynamics is isotropic (no favored direction) we should expect, and indeed find, that this three dimensional distribution is the product of independent probability distributions in the three Cartesian directions: F(!v)d!v = f(vx)dvxf( vy)dvyf( vz)dvzwhere the normalized one-dimensional distributions are of the form: 4/22/08 5:33 PM5.62 Spring 2008 Lecture #28 Page 3 f(u) =m2!kT"#$%&'1/2e– mu2/2kT In the above formula u denotes one of the velocity components. Note well: the MB distribution is stronglypeaked around u = 0. The width of the distribution is related to the square root of the temperature. Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM) of f(u) FWHM ! 2u1 / 212!f u1 / 2( )f( 0)= e"mu1/222kTu1 / 2=2kTln 2m#$%&'(1 / 2) T1 / 2Distribution of molecular speed. The speed (a quantity distinct from u) of a molecule in the gas is the magnitude of the velocity vector: v =!v = vx2+ vy2+ vz2. We can obtain an expression for the probability distribution of the speed by transforming the 3-D distribution into a distribution of the magnitude of the velocity vector (averaged over direction). This is accomplished by use of spherical coordinates for the velocity vector: vx= vsin! cos", vy= vsin!sin", vz= vcos!. In spherical coordinates the 3-D differential volume element is: d!v = v2dvsin !d!d". Thus we have: 4/22/08 5:33 PM5.62 Spring 2008 Lecture #28 Page 4 F!v( )d!v = F(v,!,")v2dvsin!d!d" =m2#kT$%&'()32e*mv22kTv2 dvsin!d!d" The ranges of the variables are: The distribution of the speed is found by integrating over angles. The result is: 0 < v < !, 0 < " < #, 0 < $ < 2#. h(v)dv = 4!m2!kT"#$%&'32e(mv22kTv2 dv . The speed distribution is drawn below. We also give a sketch of how the distribution shifts – it broadens and moves to higher speeds - as the temperature increases. We shall determine several characteristics of the speed distribution !1!The most probable speed: The most probable speed ˆvis the speed which has the maximum likelihood. This speed is determined from the condition !hˆv( )= 0. ˆv =2kTm!"#$%&12!2!The average speed: The average speed vis determined from the formula: v = vh v( )0!"dv =8kT#m$%&'()1/2 4/22/08 5:33 PM5.62 Spring 2008 Lecture #28 Page 5 !3!The Root Mean Square (rms) speed: This quantity is determined from the formula: v2( )12= v20!"h(v)dv#$%&'(12=3kTm)*+,-.12Note : ! =12mv2"12m v( )2and since v2!3kTmwe have " !32kT.ˆvvv2[ ]1 / 24.07(T/m)1/2m/s 4.59(T/m)1/2m/s 4.98(T/m)1/2m/s @ 300K shutter, Time-of-Flight (TOF) distribution rotating sectors effusive molecular beam supersonic jet (skimmed) speciesmvN2284.8 ! 102m/s = 5 ! 104 cm/sH221.8 ! 103m/sHg2011.8 ! 102m/sonly a factor of 10for a factor of 100in massHow is velocity distribution measured? 4/22/08 5:33


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