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RMS Speed?


weeeman

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Square each speed, add them together, divide by 3, then take the square root. smile.gif

 

[math]v_{rms}=\sqrt{\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (v_i)^2}[/math]

 

where vi is the speed of the i'th particle (i.e. i=1,2,3...) and n is the number of particles.

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