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==General interest== | ==General interest== | ||
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.27.289 D. Ter Haar "Foundations of Statistical Mechanics", Reviews of Modern Physics '''27''' pp. 289 - 338 (1955)] | |||
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.177.4047.393 P. W. Anderson "More Is Different", Science '''177''' pp. 393-396 (1972)] | |||
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00268970600965835 J. S. Rowlinson "The evolution of some statistical mechanical ideas", Molecular Physics '''104''' pp. 3399 - 3410 (2006)] | |||
Revision as of 13:08, 24 April 2007
- Liouville's theorem
- de Broglie thermal wavelength
- Entropy
- Partition function
- Boltzmann distribution
- Gibbs ensemble
- Gibbs distribution
- Canonical ensemble
- Microcanonical ensemble
- Grand canonical ensemble
- Isothermal-isobaric ensemble
- Semi-grand ensembles
- Radial distribution function
- Kirkwood superposition approximation
- Born-Green equation
- Phase transitions
- Classical critical points
- Structure factor
- Curie's law
- Maxwell velocity distribution
- Brownian motion
- Gibbs paradox
- Parrondo's paradox