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Question: Consider a collection of N ideal gas particles with radius R and mass m moving in a 3D cube of length L at temperature T. Write down the probability density for the energy per particle.

Since we've been doing the Maxwell-Boltzmann speed distribution I thought it was asking me to derive the Maxwell-Boltzmann energy distribution from that so I did G(v)dv = G(E)dE, dE = mvdv but then the radius and length confuse me and I don't understand how they are supposed to be ideal gas particles with a radius. I assume that means they have volume and therefore collide with each other.

Any help would be much appreciated.