I am trying to obtain the standard expressions for free fall in a constant and stationary gravitational field using stochastic mechanics. When the initial velocity of the particle is v0 we write the following equation for the subsequent Brownian movement
∂∂tp(x,t)+v0∂∂xp(x,t)=η(t)∂2∂x2p(x,t)
where p(x,t) is the probability that the particle is at position x at time t; and η(t) is the diffusivity of the particle in the gravitational field at time t. Assuming that the particle at t = 0 is at x = 0, we have that
p(x,0)=δ(x)
where δ(x) is the Dirac delta function.
We consider a general form for the diffusivity given by
η(t)=ηtn
where n is a positive integer.
The solution of this problem is obtained with Maple using the Fourier transform and the result is

From this solution the expected position for the particle is
E(x(t))=v0t
and the corresponding variance for the position at time t is
Var(x(t))=2ηtn+1n+1
The classical trajectory for the particle is reconstructed according with
x(t)=E(x(t))+√Var(x(t))
Then we have that
x(t)=v0t+√2√ηtn/2+1/2√n+1
From this last expression the velocity of the particle at time t is
v(t)=v0+(1/2)√2√ηtn/2−1/2√n+1
If we attempt to recover the classic expression
v(t)=v0+gt
we need to choose that
n=3
and
η=g2/2
My questions are:
1. Do you know some reference where all these computations can be found ?.
2. It is possible to use these results with the aim to describe the free fall as a real diffusion in a gravitational field?