https://gdpark.blog/tags/plane-waves/Recent content in Plane Waves on gdpark.blogHugoenMon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-37-density-of-states-another-perspective/Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-37-density-of-states-another-perspective/Why stress over weird container shapes? Since boundary conditions don’t actually matter in stat mech, we just pick periodic BCs so we can use clean plane waves instead of messy sines and cosines.