Consider an ideal gas obeying the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution i.e
f(v)=(m2πkBT)3/2exp(−mv22kBT).
The probability distribution in 3D velocity space (v2=v2x+v2y+v2z). How might you determine the average speed the particles are moving at, ⟨|vz|⟩, in one direction?
Additionally if my ideal gas is now confined to a hemisphere in velocity space i.e we have the conditions −∞≤vx,vy≤∞ and 0≤vz≤∞ but it still has a Maxwell Boltzmann velocity distribution (except I think the normalization factor on f(v) should change) then what is the average speed, or velocity, in the z direction ⟨vz⟩, will this be the same as |⟨vz|⟩ from the previous answer?
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