The Methodology of Statistical Mechanics 4.1 Introduction
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We now will apply the tools and concepts of thermodynamics and probability which we introduced in Chapters 2 and 3 to relate the microscopic and macroscopic descriptions of thermal systems. In so doing we will develop the formalism of statistical mechanics. To make explicit the probabilistic assumptions and the type of calculations that are done in statistical mechanics we first discuss an isolated system of non-interacting spins. The main ideas that we will need from Chapter 3 are the rules of probability, the calculation of averages, and the principle of least bias or maximum uncertainty.
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