statistical mechanics
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- noun
- /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kəl mɪˈkæn.ɪks/
- Specialized
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mecánica estadística
- And this is the gateway to almost all of modern quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, quantum statistical mechanics.
- physics and statistical mechanics
- particle systems of statistical mechanics
- models in statistical mechanics
So that that's one thing which comes out of statistical mechanics if you take it too seriously.
- So that that's one thing which comes out of statistical mechanics if you take it too seriously.
- And this is the gateway to almost all of modern quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, quantum statistical mechanics.
Examples
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With such measurements, experimenters can test the validity of FTs and scrutinize some fundamental assumptions of statistical mechanics.
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In statistical mechanics, we can predict the thermodynamic properties of a system by studying the collective behavior of its particles.
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You know, from a statistical mechanics point of view, it's just States and levels, right?
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A theory for market making based on methods from statistical mechanics.
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Today, we recognize the key roles such terms play in particle physics and statistical mechanics.
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And in fact, without statistical mechanics, we probably would not know about the Higgs boson.
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External variables such as temperature, pressure, and chemical potential specify the different ensembles in statistical mechanics.
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The model's main champions in recent years have been physicists, who have used analogies to statistical mechanics to develop new models of markets.
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Understanding the dynamics and statistical mechanics of agency promises to expand the conceptual scope of physics.
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Their experimental test is an example of how the JE bridges the statistical mechanics of equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built — 'statistical' modifies 'mechanics' so it indicates a branch of mechanics that uses statistics, a relation that a B1 learner who knows both words can grasp. However, the full technical sense (ensembles, probabilistic laws for many-particle systems) is specialized and not predictable from the constituents alone, so the transparency is only partial.
Etymology
Statistical mechanics comes from two simple ideas: statistical (about numbers and chance) and mechanics (how parts move). It pictures a machine made of many tiny parts that we cannot watch one by one, so scientists use statistics to understand the whole — that's why it means 'the study of many particles and their behavior'.