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	The '''thermodynamic limit''' is reached as the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a system approaches infinity. The thermodynamic behavior of a system is asymptotically approximated by the results of [[statistical mechanics]] as <math>N \rightarrow \infty</math>, and calculations using the various ensembles converge.		The '''thermodynamic limit''' is reached as the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a system approaches infinity. The thermodynamic behavior of a system is asymptotically approximated by the results of [[statistical mechanics]] as <math>N \rightarrow \infty</math>, and calculations using the various ensembles converge.
	==References==		==References==
			#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(75)90089-8 H. Moraal "On the existence of the thermodynamic limit for classical systems with nonspherical potentials", Physica A '''79''' pp. 75-82 (1975)]
	#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.16103 A. Compagner "Thermodynamics as the continuum limit of statistical mechanics", American Journal of Physics '''57''' pp. 106-117 (1989)]		#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.16103 A. Compagner "Thermodynamics as the continuum limit of statistical mechanics", American Journal of Physics '''57''' pp. 106-117 (1989)]
	#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1621028 Daniel F. Styer "What good is the thermodynamic limit?", American Journal of Physics '''72''' pp. 25-29 (2004)]		#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1621028 Daniel F. Styer "What good is the thermodynamic limit?", American Journal of Physics '''72''' pp. 25-29 (2004)]

Carl McBride at 11:48, 28 August 2007

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	#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.16103 A. Compagner "Thermodynamics as the continuum limit of statistical mechanics", American Journal of Physics '''57''' pp. 106-117 (1989)]		#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.16103 A. Compagner "Thermodynamics as the continuum limit of statistical mechanics", American Journal of Physics '''57''' pp. 106-117 (1989)]
	#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1621028 Daniel F. Styer "What good is the thermodynamic limit?", American Journal of Physics '''72''' pp. 25-29 (2004)]		#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1621028 Daniel F. Styer "What good is the thermodynamic limit?", American Journal of Physics '''72''' pp. 25-29 (2004)]
			#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1703547 Daniel F. Styer "Erratum: "What good is the thermodynamic limit?"", American Journal of Physics '''72''' p. 1110 (2004)]
	[[category: classical thermodynamics]]		[[category: classical thermodynamics]]
	[[category: statistical mechanics]]		[[category: statistical mechanics]]

Carl McBride at 11:28, 28 August 2007

2007-08-28T11:28:42Z

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	The '''thermodynamic limit''' is reached as the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a system approaches infinity. The thermodynamic behavior of a system is asymptotically approximated by the results of [[statistical mechanics]] as <math>N \rightarrow \infty</math>, and calculations using the various ensembles converge.		The '''thermodynamic limit''' is reached as the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a system approaches infinity. The thermodynamic behavior of a system is asymptotically approximated by the results of [[statistical mechanics]] as <math>N \rightarrow \infty</math>, and calculations using the various ensembles converge.
			==References==
			#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.16103 A. Compagner "Thermodynamics as the continuum limit of statistical mechanics", American Journal of Physics '''57''' pp. 106-117 (1989)]
			#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1621028 Daniel F. Styer "What good is the thermodynamic limit?", American Journal of Physics '''72''' pp. 25-29 (2004)]
	[[category: classical thermodynamics]]		[[category: classical thermodynamics]]
	[[category: statistical mechanics]]		[[category: statistical mechanics]]

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The '''thermodynamic limit''' is reached as the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a system approaches infinity. The thermodynamic behavior of a system is asymptotically approximated by the results of [[statistical mechanics]] as <math>N \rightarrow \infty</math>, and calculations using the various ensembles converge.
[[category: classical thermodynamics]]
[[category: statistical mechanics]]