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Covers the study of (primarily homogeneous) macroscopic systems from a heat/energy/entropy point of view. Consider also using the tag: [statistical-mechanics].
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Why do we ignore higher-order derivatives of entropy with energy in deriving the Boltzmann d...
I am taking my first course in statistical mechanics, one point that I don't really get is the justification for ignoring higher-order derivatives of entropy w.r.t energy.
We began the course by postu …
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Why do we ignore higher-order derivatives of entropy with energy in deriving the Boltzmann d...
I've probably defeated the purpose of asking a question by answering it myself after a while. Here's something I just came up with that seems like an alternative approach to "scaling" (open to comment …
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