Modern Physics for Engineers Lecture slides 20c – The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution

This lecture part states the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, which would be the thermal distribution of non-identical particles. Though quantum mechanical particles of a given kind are actually identical, this distribution is often used in practice in some situations because it gives a simpler mathematical form that is valid anyway as the high-temperature high-energy "tail" of both the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distribution. (slides)