ASTR430 HW#6 (due 12/12/05)
Your work should be handed to me (or placed under my door) by 5 pm Monday, December 12. I will have office hours as usual that day, so you could hand it in then (and discuss your oral presentation from the previous week if you like).
From the kinetic theory of gases, the fraction of particles with speeds between and in an ideal gas at thermal equilibrium is given by the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution function,