Re: Toward the equilibrium

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

Perhaps I should emphasize that the relaxation time (10^-19 sec for Cu) of
the idealized classical model which I described is the time constant of an
exponential decay; ie. the time to decay by a fraction of 1/e. It is not
the "time to equlibrium".

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ludwik Kowalski" <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 09:27 AM
Subject: Re: Toward the equilibrium


> . . .  Therefore the time of 12 ns
> is the lower limit of what we want to estimate. But it is a
> much more realistic limit than 10^-19 s.
> . . .
> Ludwik Kowalski