Timeline for Help Understanding Gaussian Particle Distribution
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 12:46 | comment | added | Brian Moths | Ok, so you are misinterpreting what the value of the distribution function means. See garyp's answer. | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 22:15 | comment | added | user1886681 | The motivation is being able to calculate the number of particles in a infinitestimally small bin for a gaussian-ly distributed ensemble. For example, if I want to know how many particles are in the bin at x=0, if it is N, as it is shown in the above gaussian distribution, then that means all my particles are located at x=0! Not something I want. | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 20:22 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 9, 2014 at 20:14 | answer | added | garyp | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 20:12 | comment | added | Brian Moths | What is the motivation behind condition 3? You realize that if you confine N particles to a region of radius .1, the density there will be higher than N, right? | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 19:20 | history | edited | JamalS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 9, 2014 at 19:18 | history | asked | user1886681 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |