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Re: energy distribution



At 10:46 AM 5/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
|At 08:05 AM 5/12/99 -0600, Jim Green wrote:
|>John, if I know the E of the system, how can the p of any particle be >
|>sqrt (2mE)? If it were, then E would be = p^2/2m
|
|There's a difference between "any" and "all".
|
|If *all* of them had p > sqrt 2mE, then sure, that would be inconsistent
|with the given total E.
|

Absolutely right - I was in a space warp.

Jim Green
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