Above, below and beyond Brownian motion
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- Published by American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in American Journal of Physics
- Vol. 67 (12) , 1253-1259
- https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19112
Abstract
Brownian motion represents simple diffusionrandom walk processes. More complex random walk processes also can occur when probability distributions describing the random jump distances and times have infinite moments. We explore the manner in which these distributions can arise and how they underlie various scaling laws that play an important role in both random and deterministic systems.Keywords
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