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Statistical Mechanics Summary
What? Why?
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Ideal gas
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Conserved quantities (Energy, ...)
and thermodynamic variables (\({-1 / kT}\), ...)
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Microscopic reversibility
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When does TE hold?
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Entropy
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Indistinguishability (Gibbs paradox)
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(Grand) partition function
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Occupation number (Mathematica notebook)
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Gravity has negative specific heat, is thermodynamically unstable
Updated 2023 Sep 25