Mean free time

Molecules in a fluid constantly collide with each other.

[1] These concepts are used in the kinetic theory of gases to compute transport coefficients such as the viscosity.

[2] In a gas the mean free path may be much larger than the average distance between molecules.

It is often modeled as a Poisson process, in which the probability of a collision in a small time interval

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