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The concept of an average distance that a molecule travels between collisions (a mean free path) is not required in the rigorous transport theory of the classical perfect gas but remains a useful concept at the more elementary level adopted in this chapter. The mean free path is well defined for a gas of elastic spheres but requires more careful consideration when the more realistic model of a molecule as a scattering potential is used.
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Riedi, P.C. (1976). Kinetic Theory of Gases-II. In: Thermal Physics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15669-6_9
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