Statistical Mechanics Dr Alfred Huan Contents 1 What is Statistical Mechanics? 3 1.1 Key Ideas in the module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Why do we study Statistical Mechanics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 De?nitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3.1 Microstate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3.2 Macrostate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 Distribution Law 6 2.1 Distribution Law & Ensemble Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2 Computation of Most Probable Macrostate Distribution, n j . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 Problems in Derivation of Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3.1 n
statistical mechanics ---Alfred Huan
Statistical Mechanics Dr Alfred Huan Contents 1 What is Statistical Mechanics? 3 1.1 Key Ideas in the module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Why do we study Statistical Mechanics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 De?nitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3.1 Microstate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3.2 Macrostate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 Distribution Law 6 2.1 Distribution Law & Ensemble Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2 Computation of Most Probable Macrostate Distribution, n j . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 Problems in Derivation of Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3.1 n
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