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random walk problems

• In random walk
  A typical example is the drunkard’s walk, in which a point beginning at the origin of the Euclidean plane moves a distance of one unit for each unit of time, the direction of motion, however, being random at each step. The problem is to find, after some fixed time, the…
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statistic of gas movement

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  In gas: Mean-free path and collision rate
  …is known as the “drunkard’s walk.” In this scenario a drunkard takes steps of length l but, because of inebriation, takes them in random directions. After N steps, how far will he be from his starting point? The answer is that his progress is proportional not to N but…
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