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Physics Friday 93
Continuing from last Friday, we now find the behavior of an ideal Bose gas at a temperature below the condensation temperature , where our previous analysis fails due to the integral approximation neg… more →
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Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: An Introduction
josephvermont wrote 1 week ago: Heat is a form of energy. Everyday we experience heat. When we cook, when hear the news about weathe … more →
Physics Friday 93
twistedone151 wrote 2 months ago: Continuing from last Friday, we now find the behavior of an ideal Bose gas at a temperature below th … more →
Physics Friday 89
twistedone151 wrote 3 months ago: Continuing from last week’s discussion of the thermodynamics of the ideal Fermi fluid, we now … more →
Physics Friday 88
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twistedone151 wrote 3 months ago: Previously, I used the grand canonical formalism to derive the fundamental thermodynamic relation fo … more →
Physics Friday 87
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twistedone151 wrote 3 months ago: Continuing from last week with our simple fermion system, we now consider the system enclosed in wal … more →
Physics Friday 84
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twistedone151 wrote 4 months ago: The canonical ensemble is a powerful tool for statistical mechanics. Let us now illustrate another p … more →
Physics Friday 83
twistedone151 wrote 4 months ago: Consider a crystal of N atoms. Each atom has two accessable states: a ground state, of energy 0; and … more →
Physics Friday 82
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twistedone151 wrote 5 months ago: One might recall my previous post where I considered a system in contact with a thermal reservoir wi … more →
Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of self-gravitating systems
tom w wrote 5 months ago: It is not uncommon among scientists to consider philosophy of science to be an uninteresting distrac … more →
Statistical Mechanics
philwu wrote 7 months ago: Topics for statistical mechanics: Standard thermodynamics Phase diagrams van der Waals force Kinetic … more →
Physics Friday 69
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twistedone151 wrote 8 months ago: Consider a particle of mass m moving freely in a rectangular box, and undergoing perfectly elastic c … more →
Another time reversal puzzle
Ponder Stibbons wrote 11 months ago: Wolfgang has a nice stat mech puzzle up at his extremely under-read physics-ish blog. As I write in … more →
Boltzmann Factor & Distribution
Ovrec wrote 1 year ago: The Boltzmann factor gives the unnormalised relative probability for a state of energy of being occu … more →
Physics Friday 21
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twistedone151 wrote 1 year ago: Let us make an idealized model of a binary substitution alloy. We have a crystal with N total atomic … more →
SklogWiki
ddcampayo wrote 1 year ago: SklogWiki is a wiki for people interested in simple liquids, complex fluids, and soft condensed matt … more →
Statistical Mechanics, by Ben Widom
ddcampayo wrote 1 year ago: I love Dr. Benjamin Widom’s writing style. This recent book by him is an excellent introductio … more →
Enabling self-organizing text
identityandconsulting wrote 1 year ago: Evolving Trends January 13, 2007 Self-Aware Text Filed under: AI, Hopfield, Web 3.0, XO sauce, energ … more →
Thermodynamic Reversibility
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Ponder Stibbons wrote 2 years ago: A long-stalled project of mine was to go around collecting definitions of thermodynamic reversibilit … more →
The Spin Echo Effect
Ponder Stibbons wrote 2 years ago: I actually performed this experiment as an undergraduate in physics. At that time I had little under … more →
