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*[[Brownian motion]] | *[[Brownian motion]] | ||
*[[Compressibility equation]] | *[[Compressibility equation]] | ||
===Paradoxes== | ===Paradoxes=== | ||
*[[Gibbs paradox]] | *[[Gibbs paradox]] | ||
*[[Parrondo's paradox]] | *[[Parrondo's paradox]] | ||
Revision as of 12:15, 22 May 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
- Compressibility equation
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)