Read · Brownian motion: from wandering to a measurable law · Split view
§1 · Osmotic pressure from suspended particles
Particles just large enough to see under a microscope must wander, Einstein argues, and how far they wander in a given time would let us count molecules. Read the argument, and open any step it leaves out.
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