Statistical Mechanics

Accepted · 1902

Status: Accepted
Year: 1902

Summary

Thermodynamics derived from counting microstates. It explains why entropy increases without any law saying it must: there are simply overwhelmingly more disordered arrangements than ordered ones.

Timeline

Heat Death

Equations

Boltzmann Entropy Partition Function Second Law of Thermodynamics Boltzmann Distribution Fermi–Dirac Distribution Equipartition Theorem

Proponent

Ludwig Boltzmann Josiah Willard Gibbs

Referenced by

equation

Boltzmann Distribution Boltzmann Entropy Equipartition Theorem Fermi–Dirac Distribution Partition Function Second Law of Thermodynamics

event

Heat Death

researcher

Josiah Willard Gibbs Ludwig Boltzmann

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