Molecular Physics

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In order to fix our attention upon the problems to be dealt with, and to recall to our minds some clear ideas of the magnitudes with which we shall have to deal, it may be well to consider briefly the position to which we had been brought by the exponents of the kinetic theory.