UNIVERSITY PHYSICS I CHAPTER 14 Kinetic theor Chapter 14 Kinetic theory The dynamics of article systems is called statistical mechanics The kinetic theory is a special aspect of the statistical mechanics of large number of particles Suitable averages of the physical characteristics and motions of individual particles provide information about the macroscopic behavior of the system as a whole1 Chapter 14 Kinetic theory The kinetic theory is a special aspect of the statistical mechanics of large number of particles. Suitable averages of the physical characteristics and motions of individual particles provide information about the macroscopic behavior of the system as a whole. The dynamics of many-particle systems is called statistical mechanics