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What is the general statistical definition of temperature?
Temperature in an isolated system is defined as:
$$\frac{1}{T} = -\frac{\partial{S(E,V,N)}}{\partial{E}} $$
But I wonder how one can generalize this to a random system.
Or for instance to a point in ...
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Rice Allnatt distribution function
Can anyone give me an article of which explains Rice Allnatt distribution function or can you explain the function here?
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The definition of entropy in quantum mechanics
I have seen entropy with several different definitions. Like Von Neumann entropy and Rényi entropy, etc.
So I am curious why there are so many different definitions in quantum mechanics while only ...
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Is temperature an extensive property, like density?
I was thinking about it some time ago, and now that I've discovered this site I would like to ask it here because I couldn't work it out then.
I know that the higher temperature the air in my room ...
