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Behaviour of individual terms in Einstein-Smoluchowski fluctuation-dissipation relation
Consider a bath of Brownian particles at temperature $T$. If we sprinkle some larger particles in this (eg: pollen grains in water or dust motes in air), they'll diffuse with diffusion constant $D$ ...
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What are the reasons for leaving the dissipative energy term out of the Hamiltonian when writing the Lyapunov function?
I have a problem with one of my study questions for an oral exam:
The Hamiltonian of a nonlinear mechanical system, i.e. the sum of the kinetic and potential energies, is often used as a Lyapunov ...
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Can a mechanical systems on hold be switched off, in another way than just letting it do it's thing?
Can the value of the potential energy, which is responsible for driving the system, diminish in time, while the system itself is stationary during that time? Can there be dissipation in a system, ...
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Noise is a form of dissipation?
(Mechanical) noise is a form of dissipation? For example, when the computer fan turns it produces noise. This noise is a form of dissipation in addition to heat produced by the machine (computer)? If ...
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Is there an abstract notion of heat within a microscopical system?
The microstates of a system are said to be unobservable. I can introduce the entropy as a measure of the number of microstates, which lead to the same macroscopic variables. So in this detailed ...
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What physical processes may underly the collisional term in the Boltzmann equation, and how do they increase entropy?
Consider particles interacting only by long-range (inverse square law) forces, either attractive or repulsive. I am comfortable with the idea that their behavior may be described by the collsionless ...
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Why can't we ascribe a (possibly velocity dependent) potential to a dissipative force?
Sorry if this is a silly question but I cant get my head around it.
