Timeline for What is the physical meaning of the partition function in statistical physics?
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| Mar 2, 2022 at 10:13 | comment | added | Quillo | @ACuriousMind, the only interesting bit on Wiki is "the partition function is also equivalent to performing a Laplace transform of the density of states function from the energy domain to the $\beta$ domain, and the inverse Laplace transform of the partition function reclaims the state density function of energies." This says it all, but it may not be intuitively (or physically) super clear. | |
| Mar 2, 2022 at 10:10 | comment | added | Quillo | @tparker NOT a duplicate imo, but "complementary": the way that question has been posted is much more precise and attracted more interesting answers, especially this one physics.stackexchange.com/a/174180/226902 | |
| May 2, 2017 at 20:16 | vote | accept | albedo | ||
| Feb 5, 2017 at 13:51 | history | protected | Qmechanic♦ | ||
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| Feb 2, 2017 at 20:53 | comment | added | tparker | Possible duplicate of The unreasonable effectiveness of the partition function | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 8:41 | answer | added | valerio | timeline score: 28 | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 6:53 | answer | added | tparker | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 6:02 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 21:19 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 3:49 | history | edited | knzhou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2016 at 3:40 | answer | added | A.Zent | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 10:40 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | Did you read the "meaning" section in the Wikipedia article? If yes, what doesn't satisfy you about "it encodes how the probabilities are partitioned among the different microstates"? | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 10:14 | comment | added | Selene Routley | Aside from being a normalization factor, many of its significant features for calculations arise from its likeness to Z and Laplace transforms, thanks to the exponential-with-energy Boltzmann distribution, which is kind of a "co-indidence" in that they wouldn't work with a different distribution. | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 10:11 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 1, 2015 at 9:10 | history | asked | albedo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |