A Summary of Statistical Thermodynamics Calculations

Note 109: A summary of SCA calculations

This document provides a summary of the current implementation of the statistical coupling analysis (SCA) method. The conceptual goal of SCA is to quantitatively parameterize the statistical patterns encoded in ensembles of proteins that share a common evolutionary origin. The idea is that this statistical analysis will provide a necessary foundation for understanding the physical mechanism and...

Thermodynamics of hydrogen vacancies in MgH2 from first-principles calculations and grand-canonical statistical mechanics

Statistical Thermodynamics - Fall 2009

Molecular theory can be considered as a preliminary to statistical physics. While the latter employs a more sophisticated formalism encompassing quantum-mechanical systems, the former operates with a classical ideal gas. Molecular theory studies the relation between the temperature of the gas and the kinetic energy of the molecules, pressure on the walls due to the impact of the molecules, dist...

Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

Statistical thermodynamics of economic systems

We formulate thermodynamics of economic systems in terms of an arbitrary probability distribution for a conserved economic quantity. As in statistical physics, thermodynamic macroeconomic variables emerge as the mean value of microeconomic variables and their determination is reduced to the computation of the partition function, starting from an arbitrary function. Explicit hypothetical example...