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Statistical Mechanics
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.
Important Related Concepts:
Layman
Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party.
Student
Recommended Resources:
- What is Statistical Mechanics? by Roman Frigg
- See also this review, and [[https://github.com/rht/phython/blob/master/review/statmech2.pdf|part 2].
- A great explanation how one can derive the Boltzman distribution from the principle of maximal entropy is given at page 3 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.0813.pdf
Researcher
The motto in this section is: the higher the level of abstraction, the better.
- Common Question 1
- Common Question 2
Examples
- Example1
- Example2:
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