1Department of Physics, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas 67117
2Department of History, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas 67260-0045
Tóm tắt
We present a translation of Paul Langevin’s landmark paper. In it Langevin successfully applied Newtonian dynamics to a Brownian particle and so invented an analytical approach to random processes which has remained useful to this day.