https://gdpark.blog/tags/microstates/Recent content in Microstates on gdpark.blogHugoenSat, 16 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-03-microstates-and-macrostates/Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-03-microstates-and-macrostates/We kick things off with the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics — what thermal equilibrium really means, why heat only flows one way, and how that leads us to thermometers!https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-04-temperature/Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-04-temperature/Diving into the statistical definition of temperature — microstates, the ergodic hypothesis, and the genuinely staggering conclusion that falls out of it all!https://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-41-the-grand-partition-function/Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-41-the-grand-partition-function/We let particles flow freely and ask what happens to the partition function — turns out there’s a grand version Z_G derived straight from entropy!https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-73-fluctuations/Sat, 16 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-73-fluctuations/Can wild, chaotic fluctuations actually be tamed by state functions like S, T, and V? Turns out entropy and probability density are more buddy-buddy than you’d think.