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We must say from the beginning that the Boltzmann equation turns out to be particularly difficult to solve even for very simple nonequilibrium situations. We shall, however, have much more to say about this later, since the procedures for solving the Boltzmann equation will be treated in some detail in the subsequent chapters. What is the mQtivation for setting up and solving the Boltzmann equation? We can distinguish two main kinds of application. The first one is concerned with deducing the macroscopic behaviour of gases from the microscopic model, when the mean free path (defined at the end of Section 4 of the previous chapter) is much smaller than other typical lengths of the problem.
That is, the sum of N! P's with arguments corresponding to the N! permutations of the N molecules, divided byN!. This means that for the purposes of computing measurable quantities, we may replace P by S[P]. It is clear that it would be very convenient to work with S[P] from the beginning, if possible. It is very simple to modify our description in such a way as to make it possible to replace P by S[P]. In fact, it is sufficient to observe that S[P] satisfies the Liouville equation, because the latter is symmetrical with respect to identical molecules (identity includes, of course, identical interaction laws between the molecules).
A simple estimate of the value of the mean free path I of a hard sphere is obtained by assuming the other spheres at rest and surrounding each of them by a sphere of radius equal to the diameter (1 of the particles, while the travelling sphere SI is represented by a point (Fig. 5). 16) iIooII~--r-~--------- n Fig. 5. Protection sphere and mean free path. 17) 5. Scattering of a volume element in pbase space Let us consider a mass point moving along an axis between two rigid walls. Let x denote the abscissa of the point and ~ its velocity, ±l the abscissa of the w~lls.