Abstract
THIS book does not profess to treat of all that has been written about the kinetic theory of gases. It discusses the ultimate average condition of a material system, consisting of a very great number of parts in motion within a confined space, and it follows for the most part the methods of investigation given by Boltzmann. The discussion is arranged in the form of thirteen propositions, in which the different cases are considered in the order of their complexity. In the earlier propositions the moving bodies are supposed to be rigid-elastic spheres acting on each other only by impact, afterwards external forces are introduced, and finally the bodies are supposed to be material systems, the parts of which are held together by any system of forces consistent with the principle of the conservation of energy. A Treatise on the Kinetic Theory of Gases. By Henry William Watson, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1876.)
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