equipartition

Noun

(plural equipartitions)

the division of something into equal parts
(mathematics, of a graph) the partition of its vertex set into sets whose sizes differ from each other by no more than 1

Verb

(third-person singular simple present equipartitions, present participle equipartitioning, simple past and past participle equipartitioned)

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These equations express the " law of equipartition of energy," commonly spoken of as the Maxwell-Boltzmann Law.
The law of equipartition shows that the various mean energies of different kinds are all equal, each being measured by the quantity 1/4h.
In fact the proved tendency for the gas to pass into the " normal state " in which there is equipartition of energy, represents in this case nothing but the tendency for the translational energy to become dissipated into the energy of innumerable small vibrations.

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