https://gdpark.blog/tags/boltzmann/Recent content in Boltzmann on gdpark.blogHugoenSat, 23 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-26-gibbs-expression-for-the-entropy/Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-26-gibbs-expression-for-the-entropy/A casual (and slightly reluctant) walkthrough of Gibbs’ entropy formula, showing how entropy gets re-expressed through probability over macrostates and microstates.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-34-relationship-between-the-partition-function-and-state-functi/Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-34-relationship-between-the-partition-function-and-state-functi/We derive thermodynamic state functions like U, F, and S straight from the partition function Z — turns out one sneaky differential trick does all the heavy lifting!