Energy equation
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The energy equation is given, in classical thermodynamics, by
and in statistical mechanics it is obtained via the thermodynamic relation
and making use of the Helmholtz energy function and the canonical partition function one arrives at
where is a two-body central potential, is the excess internal energy per particle, and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\rm g}(r)} is the radial distribution function.