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Diffusion Equation, simple illustration

w(x,t)dx=14πDtexp(x24Dt)dx. At a time $t=2$s the new variance is $\sigma^2=4D$s, implying that the root mean square value is x2x2=2D. At a further time t=8 we have x2x2=4D. While time has elapsed by a factor of 4, the root mean square has only changed by a factor of 2.