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Fokker-Planck equation
  هموگش ِ فوکر-پلانک  
hamugeš-e Fokker-Planck
Fr.: équation de Fokker-Planck  

A modified form of → Boltzmann’s equation allowing for collision terms in an approximate way. It describes the rate of change of a particle’s velocity as a result of small-angle collisional deflections.

See also: After Dutch physicist Adriaan Fokker (1887-1972) and the German physicist Max Planck (1858-1947); → equation.