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IN his criticism on a paper of mine on the partition of energy in a set of non-homogeneous spheres (NATURE, March 31, p. 512), Mr. Watson says that the conclusions are vitiated owing to my having omitted to introduce the frequency factor of collisions before proceeding to take the averages. This is not exactly accurate, since a frequency factor is introduced, viz. the relative speed of the centres of inertia of the impinging spheres parallel to the line of impact.
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BURNSEDE, W. Prof. Burnside's Paper on the Partition of Energy, R.S.E., July 1887. Nature 45, 533 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045533a0
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