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Mean displacement magnitude of three-dimensional Brownian motion (E∣Xt​∣=4Dt/π​)

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For isotropic Brownian motion started at zero with independent coordinate variances 2Dt, the Gaussian distribution has density (4πDt)−3/2e−∣x∣2/(4Dt). Integrating the radius with spherical volume element 4πr2dr gives E∣Xt​∣=4Dt/π​. The root mean square displacement is instead 6Dt​, and the mean vector is zero. None of these is the microscopic path length.

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