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If V is the velocity of a particle of mass M, then its kinetic energy is defined to be 1/2*M*V^2. If we have two particles, one with velocity 3 and the other with velocity 4, the total kinematic energy is given by
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The RMS-velocity is
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The energy associated with the 2 particles of mass M and velocity Rv is
Note that the arithmetic average is not suitable here:
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