Article | REF: AF4060 V1

Statistical thermodynamics - General presentation

Author: Catherine COLINET

Publication date: January 10, 1998

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2. Statistics for molecules or independent subsystems

2.1 Presentation of the problem

We have shown 1 that the thermodynamic study of a macroscopic system boils down to the construction of its partition function, which requires knowledge of all the energy states of the system under study.

Let's consider a system made up of elementary...

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