Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Proof at last for Boltzmann's 140-year-old gas equation

what if you tried to identify the half or two-thirds derivative? They exist mathematically, but don't make any sense in the real world, so Strain was surprised to see them while working with the Boltzmann equation. "It's very rare to find fractional derivatives appearing in a physical model," he says.

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