Abstract
We bring attention to the fact that Maxwell's mean free path for a dilute hard-sphere gas in thermal equilibrium, (2σn)−1, which is ordinarily obtained by multiplying the average speed by the average time between collisions, is also the statistical mean of the distribution of free path lengths in such a gas.
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