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| ====== Statistical Mechanics ====== | ====== Statistical Mechanics ====== | ||
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| - | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
| - | Statistical mechanics is a framework that allows us to describe systems with many degrees of freedom, although we don't know all the microscopic details. For example, using statistical mechanics, we can describe a gas or a block of metal, although we don't know all individual atom configurations. | + | <tabbox Intuitive> |
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| - | **Important Related Concepts:** | + | |
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| - | * [[basic_notions:entropy]] | + | |
| - | * [[theories:statistical_mechanics:thermodynamics]] | + | |
| - | <tabbox Layman> | + | |
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| **Recommended Resources:** | **Recommended Resources:** | ||
| * [[http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9133/2/What_is_SM.pdf|What is Statistical Mechanics?]] by Roman Frigg | * [[http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9133/2/What_is_SM.pdf|What is Statistical Mechanics?]] by Roman Frigg | ||
| + | * The Principles of Statistical Mechanics by Richard C. Tolman | ||
| * See also [[https://github.com/rht/phython/blob/master/review/statmech.pdf|this review]], and [[https://github.com/rht/phython/blob/master/review/statmech2.pdf|part 2]]. | * See also [[https://github.com/rht/phython/blob/master/review/statmech.pdf|this review]], and [[https://github.com/rht/phython/blob/master/review/statmech2.pdf|part 2]]. | ||
| * A great explanation how one can derive the Boltzmann distribution from the principle of maximal entropy is given at page 3 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.0813.pdf | * A great explanation how one can derive the Boltzmann distribution from the principle of maximal entropy is given at page 3 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.0813.pdf | ||
| - | + | * Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics by F. Reif | |
| - | <tabbox Researcher> | + | * A crash course in Statistical Mechanics https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/noahmiller/files/statistical_mechanics.pdf |
| + | <tabbox Abstract> | ||
| - | **Recommended Resources:** | ||
| - | * http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/sft.html | + | [{{ :theories:classical_theories:image_20171011_153609.png?nolink |Source: Where do quantum field theories come from? by McGreevy}}] |
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| + | **Recommended Resources:** | ||
| - | --> Common Question 1# | + | * http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/sft.html |
| - | + | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | |
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| - | --> Common Question 2# | + | Statistical mechanics is a framework that allows us to describe systems with many degrees of freedom, although we don't know all the microscopic details. For example, using statistical mechanics we can describe a gas or a block of metal, although we don't know all individual atom configurations. |
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| - | <tabbox Examples> | ||
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| - | <tabbox History> | ||
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