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Einstein's theory[edit]

In the subsection Brownian_motion#Einstein's_theory, at the first line of the Taylor Series expansion, we have the following equality:

\rho (x,t)+\tau {\frac {\partial \rho (x)}{\partial t}}+\cdots =\rho (x,t+\tau )=\int _{-\infty }^{\infty }\rho (x-\Delta ,t)\cdot \varphi (\Delta )\,\mathrm {d} \Delta =\mathbb {E} _{\Delta }[\rho (x-\Delta ,t)]

On the right hand side, why do we have $\rho (x-\Delta ,t)$ insted of $\rho (x+\Delta ,t)$ ?, since Einstein himself derived the Diffusion Equation from^[1] $f(x,t+\tau )=\int _{-\infty }^{\infty }f(x+\Delta ,t)\cdot \varphi (\Delta )\mathrm {d} \Delta$ .

Zaphodxvii (talk) 04:31, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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^ Einstein, Albert (1956) [1926]. Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement (PDF). Dover Publications. Retrieved 2013-12-25.

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There are many unsourced paragraphs and the article fails the B-class assessment. -- Otr500 (talk) 08:07, 27 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

[Eistein1956-1] Einstein, Albert (1956) [1926]. Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement (PDF). Dover Publications. Retrieved 2013-12-25.

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