176
REVIEW OF BOHLIN
Doc. 27
Review
of
K.
BOHLIN,
"On Impact
Considered
as
the Basis
of
the Kinetic
Theories
of Gas
Pressure
and
of Universal Gravitation"
("Sur
le
choc,
considere
comme
fondement des
theories cinetiques
de
la pression
des
gaz
et
de
la
gravitation
universelle,"
Arkiv
for
Matematik,
Astronomi
och Fysik
1
(1904):
522-540)
[Beiblätter
zu
den
Annalen
der
Physik 29 (1905):
952]
Starting
from
the
remark
that
repulsive
forces
between
particles
are
introduced into the kinetic
theory
of
gases
as
well
as
into the
dynamic
theory
of gravitation
for the sole
purpose
of
explaining
collisions,
the
author seeks
to
avoid the introduction
of
repulsive forces
altogether.
He
tries
to
ascribe
the
impact
exclusively to
the action of attractive forces
between
the
corpuscles
that constitute
the colliding
bodies. In
doing so,
he
takes
the
position that
every
attractive force
is
to
be
explained
(kinetically)
by
the
effect of
the
impact
of
relatively
infinitesimally
small
corpuscles, and
every
impact
by
the attraction of relatively
infinitesimally
small
corpuscles.
Thus, corpuscles
of
infinitely
many
orders
of
magnitudes
are
introduced
to
explain
the
elementary
properties of matter.
[1]
[2]