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Revision as of 12:31, 7 June 2007
- BBGKY hierarchy
- Boltzmann distribution
- Born-Green equation
- Brownian motion
- Canonical ensemble
- Chemical potential
- Classical critical points
- Compressibility equation
- Critical points
- Curie's law
- de Broglie thermal wavelength
- Energy equation
- Entropy
- Gibbs distribution
- Gibbs ensemble
- Grand canonical ensemble
- Intermolecular pair potential
- Isothermal-isobaric ensemble
- Kirkwood superposition approximation
- Liouville's theorem
- Maxwell velocity distribution
- Microcanonical ensemble
- Pair distribution function
- Partition function
- Phase space
- Phase transitions
- Pressure equation (aka. virial equation)
- Quantum statistics
- Radial distribution function
- Semi-grand ensembles
- Structure factor
Paradoxes
General interest
- D. Ter Haar "Foundations of Statistical Mechanics", Reviews of Modern Physics 27 pp. 289 - 338 (1955)
- O. Penrose "Foundations of statistical mechanics", Reports on Progress in Physics 42 pp. 1937-2006 (1979)
- P. W. Anderson "More Is Different", Science 177 pp. 393-396 (1972)
- J. S. Rowlinson "The evolution of some statistical mechanical ideas", Molecular Physics 104 pp. 3399 - 3410 (2006)
- Elliott H. Lieb "Some problems in statistical mechanics that I would like to see solved", Physica A 263 pp. 491-499 (1999)