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3. Phase space


Josiah Willard Gibbs

The Kinetic Theory explained in Chapter 2 is applicable only to gases and - with certain add-ons - to fluids. A more general and extremely powerful method for analyzing statistical-mechanical systems is based on a geometrical exploration of the high-dimensional phase space spanned by the complete set of microvariables.

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Franz Vesely
2005-01-25