Mean displacement magnitude of three-dimensional Brownian motion

ID: mean-displacement-magnitude-of-three-dimensional-brownian-motion

For isotropic Brownian motion started at zero with independent coordinate variances , the Gaussian distribution has density . Integrating the radius with spherical volume element gives . The root mean square displacement is instead , and the mean vector is zero. None of these is the microscopic path length.

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