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The intuitive picture is that phase points move more quickly through regions of phase space where $|\nabla H|$ is higher. As a result if you have a constant-energy ensemble of phase points (a flat "packet"), their phase space area enlarges as they move through high $|\nabla H|$ regions. For the full Liouville's theorem this is not a problem. A ...

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If we consider temperature to be due to translational motion of the molecules and we assume the system has reached equilibrium, then the velocity distribution of the molecules is given by the Maxwell distribution: $$f(v) = \sqrt{\left(\frac{m}{2\pi k T}\right)^3} 4 \pi v^2 \exp\left(\frac{m v^2}{2 k T}\right)$$ which will give you the velocity ...

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One way to understand it is to write it using the Dirac measure to express the phase space in the microcanonical ensemble (because that's what it is about). In this ensemble the idea is to say that the energy $H(\textbf{r})$ (where $r$ is a point in phase space) is fixed at some value $E$ (actually it belongs to a very small interval $[E,E+\delta E]$). One ...

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