can you explain me the...' Maxwell 's distribution of molecular speed'
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The Maxwell distribution curve describes the speed of the molecules at a particular temperature. The speed of the largest number of molecules is the most probable speed. As the temperature increases the most probable speed also increases. Also, the curve flattens when the temperature increases.
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The air molecules surrounding us are not all traveling at the same speed, even if the air is all at a single temperature. Some of the air molecules will be moving extremely fast, some will be moving with moderate speeds, and some of the air molecules will hardly be moving at all. Because of this, we can't ask questions like "What is the speed of an air molecule in a gas?" since a molecule in a gas could have any one of a huge number of possible speeds.
So instead of asking about any one particular gas molecule, we ask questions like, "What is the distribution of speeds in a gas at a certain temperature?" In the mid to late 1800s, James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann figured out the answer to this question. Their result is referred to as the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution , because it shows how the speeds of molecules are distributed for an ideal gas.
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