Chapter 3: Rate Laws
Collision Theory
Derivation of Energy Ratio Between 
and
where f(ε,T) de is the fraction of molecules with kinetic energies between ε and (ε+dε). We could further multiply and divide by kBT
Recalling 
By letting 
, we could have put the distribution in dimensionless form
f(X,T) dX is the fraction of molecules that have energy
ratios between and
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