Langevin equation

Layer 1 — Physicsin the statistical-mechanics subtree

Stochastic ODE m ẍ = −γẋ + ξ(t) with white-noise ξ; models Brownian motion in a viscous medium. Equivalent in the overdamped limit to the Fokker–Planck equation.

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