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Heat has for long been attributed to random molecular motion or agitation. The attempts to find quantitative relation between heat and random molecular motion led to the kinetic theory of gases.
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Puri, R.R. (2024). Kinetic Theory. In: Modern Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54310-4_3
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