water (not the solute) across a selectively permeable membrane until there is an equal concentration of water and solute on both sides of the membrane. Simple diffusion and osmosis are both forms of passive transport and require none of the cell's ATP energy.

Speed of diffusion

For passive diffusion, the law of diffusion states that the mean squared displacement is with d being the number of dimensions and D the diffusion coefficient).

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