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    Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, published in March 1902, is a work of scientific literature by Josiah Willard Gibbs which is considered...
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  • death, Gibbs published in 1902 Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, a book which formalized statistical mechanics as a fully general approach...
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    Ludwig Boltzmann (category Suicides in Austria-Hungary)
    as a measure of the statistical disorder of a system. Max Planck named the constant kB the Boltzmann constant. Statistical mechanics is one of the pillars...
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  • (1902). Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics. Gao, Bolin; Pavel, Lacra (2017). "On the Properties of the Softmax Function with Application in Game...
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  • In physics, specifically statistical mechanics, an ensemble (also statistical ensemble) is an idealization consisting of a large number of virtual copies...
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    Josiah Willard Gibbs (category Statistical physicists)
    many particles was presented in his highly influential textbook Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, published in 1902, a year before his death...
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  • Concentration of measure (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    (1996), no. 1, 1–34. Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1902). Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics (PDF). New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Einstein...
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    to showcase Yale's role in the advancement of knowledge. Gibbs was authoring Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics for that series. Mindful...
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  • A list of notable textbooks in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, arranged by category and date. Fermi, Enrico (1956). Thermodynamics (New ed.)...
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  • Gibbs state (category Statistical mechanics)
    Gibbs measure KMS state Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1902). Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, developed with especial reference to the rational foundation...
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    Boltzmann distribution (category Statistical mechanics)
    In statistical mechanics and mathematics, a Boltzmann distribution (also called Gibbs distribution) is a probability distribution or probability measure...
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  • notable textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics arranged according to level and surnames of the authors in alphabetical order. Feynman, Richard...
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    reduced to quantum mechanics. Schiff, Leonard I. (1955). Quantum Mechanics. McGraw Hill. Shankar, R. (1994). Principles of Quantum Mechanics. Springer....
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  • Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian) (category Statistical mechanics theorems)
    Reproduced in The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs, Vol II (1906), p. 16. Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1902). Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics. New...
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  • Van der Waals equation (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs Volume II Part One Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics. New Haven: Yale University Press. Goodstein, D.L. (1985)...
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  • H-theorem (category Statistical mechanics theorems)
    (1902). Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Tolman, R. C. (1938). The Principles of Statistical Mechanics. Dover...
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  • celestial mechanics three-dimensional particle dynamics Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism non-inertial reference frames elementary topics in fluid dynamics...
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  • Poincaré recurrence theorem (category Statistical mechanics)
    ISBN 978-981-256-201-2. Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1902). Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Chapter X. Bocchieri...
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  • Gibbs rotational ensemble (category Statistical mechanics)
    energy, such as systems in thermal equilibrium. Gibbs, Josiah Willard (2010) [1902]. Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics: Developed with Especial...
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  • Canonical ensemble (category Statistical ensembles)
    In statistical mechanics, a canonical ensemble is the statistical ensemble that represents the possible states of a mechanical system in thermal equilibrium...
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    Mechanics, Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, Electrodynamics, Optics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, and Partial Differential Equations in Physics...
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    statistical properties of systems with many particles was presented in his highly influential textbook Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics...
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    thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, analytical dynamics and chemical equilibria. Physical chemistry, in contrast to chemical physics,...
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  • Differential entropy (category Statistical randomness)
    JSTOR 2984828. Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1902). Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, developed with especial reference to the rational foundation...
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    Point particle (category Classical mechanics)
    that the model is no longer accurate in this limit. In quantum mechanics, there is a distinction between an elementary particle (also called "point particle")...
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  • Grand canonical ensemble (category Statistical ensembles)
    In statistical mechanics, the grand canonical ensemble (also known as the macrocanonical ensemble) is the statistical ensemble that is used to represent...
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  • application of physics in medicine – such as imaging exams (NMR, PET scans, and so on), radiotherapy and nuclear medicine. Statistical mechanics – the branch of...
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  • Microcanonical ensemble (category Statistical ensembles)
    In statistical mechanics, the microcanonical ensemble is a statistical ensemble that represents the possible states of a mechanical system whose total...
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  • action principles, concepts critical to the development of quantum mechanics and of relativity. Chaos theory is a subfield of classical mechanics that was...
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    In the theory of composite materials, the representative elementary volume (REV) (also called the representative volume element (RVE) or the unit cell)...
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