Investigation of the accommodation coefficient using the thermomagnetic effect

On the basis of a theoretical consideration of the problem of heat transfer in a free molecular gas in parallel constant and variable fields, a new method is proposed for investigating the accommodation coefficients of molecules interacting with the surface of a solid, and the setting-up of an appropriate experiment is discussed.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 198–200, March–April, 1976.