Boltzmann's Roulette:
(The savants call it "Method of the most probable distribution") For the hard discs system, mu-space - or rather, mu-plane - is spanned by vx,vy; the state of the system is represented by a swarm of N points on that plane. To find the average (and also most probable!) distribution of particle energies Boltzmann suggested the following game:
[Code: LBRoulette] Back |