Fokker-Planck equation
The Fokker-Planck equation describes the time evolution of the probability density function of position and velocity of a particle.
The first use of the Fokker-Planck equation was the statistical description of Brownian motion of a particle in a fluid.
Brownian motion follows the Langevin equation, which can be solved for many differrent stochastic forcings with results being averaged (the Monte Carlo Method).
However, instead of this computationally intensive approach, one can use the Fokker-Planck equation and consider  , that is, the probability density function of the particle having a velocity in the interval  , when it starts its motion with  at time  .
The general form of the Fokker-Planck equation for N variables is
 ,
where  is the drift vector and  the diffusion tensor, the latter of which results from the presence of the stochastic force.
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Brownian motion | Brownian movement | Diffusion | Langevin equation | List of equations | List of mathematical topics (D-F) | List of mathematical topics (F-Z) | List of physics topics F-L
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