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We begin the discussion of statistical mechanics by a quick review of standard mechanics. Suppose we are given N particles whose position coordinates are given by a set of scalar quantities q 1;…; q n. In a d-dimensional space, one needs d numbers to specify a location, so that n = Nd.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Californian at Berkeley, 970 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3840, USA

    Alexandre J. Chorin & Ole H. Hald

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Chorin, A.J., Hald, O.H. (2009). Statistical Mechanics. In: Stochastic Tools in Mathematics and Science. Surveys and Tutorials in the Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1002-8_5

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