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Statistical Mechanics Summary

1. Ideal gas
2. Thermodynamic variables (\({-1 / kT}\), ...)
3. Microscopic reversibility
4. When does TE hold?
5. Entropy
6. Indistinguishability (Gibbs paradox)
7. (Grand) partition function
8. Occupation number (Mathematica notebook)
9. Gravity has negative specific heat, is thermodynamically unstable

Updated 2022 Aug 15