Odyssey kinetic energy distribution

The next few examples relate to the kinetic theory approach of physical chemistry. Figures 2 and 3 show the kinetic energy distribution for a room temperature sample of 80 carbon monoxide molecules (P 10 atm). The obtained data lend themselves to making a few important points about the interpretation of histograms. Histograms are just a special type of plot, and Odyssey can be set up to calculate and display simultaneously as many plots as... 

Figure 2. Kinetic energy distribution of an 80 molecule sample of CO (g) at 25 °C and 10 atm, calculated with the teaching program Odyssey.

Figure 3. Kinetic energy distribution calculated with Odyssey for a sample of carbon monoxide. The bin width of the histogram is either smaller (a) or larger...

Figure 4. Speed distribution (a) and kinetic energy distribution (b) as calculated with Odyssey for a gas mixture at 1,500K and 250 atm that contains 50 molecules of CO and 50 molecules of H2.

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