Thermal velocity

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The thermal velocity is just the average velocity of a particle due to the Boltzmann distribution of thermal energy. Plasma physicists are lazy, and so generally define this as:

v_T=\sqrt{\frac{kT}{m}}

This page was recovered in October 2009 from the Plasmagicians page on Thermal_velocity dated 19:08, 6 June 2006.

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