Molecular chaos, also known as "stochastic independence" or the "molecular chaos assumption," is a concept in statistical mechanics that refers to the assumption that the distribution of molecules in a gas is such that their positions and velocities are uncorrelated. This idea is fundamental to the derivation of the Boltzmann equation, which describes the statistical behavior of a dilute gas composed of a large number of particles.
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