Statistical Mechanics

Statistical mechanics is thermodynamics in the limit of large numbers. Here are a few of the more fundamental problems in classical mechanics:

  1. Distributions - moments, variance, and standard distribution solution
  2. Stirling's approximation
  3. Entropy
  4. Temperature
  5. Liouville's theorem
  6. Free energies
  7. Quantum statistics
  8. Phase transitions
  9. Order parameters
  10. Chaos

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