Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In statistical mechanics, of or pertaining to a distribution in phase such that all the systems of an ensemble have the same energy.
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- adjective physics Describing any closed system of
constant volume which isthermally isolated from its surroundings, and whose totalenergy isconstant and isknown
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Per Shang-Keng Ma, an entropy can be defined as the logarithm of the phase-space volume explored by the system over a given timescale; the states relevant for thermodynamics (mumble mumble microcanonical mumble mumble) would be the decategorification of the states used at the statistical-mechanical level.
Arrow of Time FAQ Sean 2007
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Indefinitely many distinct microcanonical ensembles of a token volume of gas molecules can yield the same mean molecular kinetic energy.
Multiple Realizability Bickle, John 2006
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One might then still conjecture that if the system is quasi-ergodic, the only continuous stationary distribution is microcanonical.
Boltzmann's Work in Statistical Physics Uffink, Jos 2004
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In other words, the only stationary probability with fixed total energy is the microcanonical distribution. Ïmc = δ (H (x) ’ E), where δ is Dirac's delta function.
Boltzmann's Work in Statistical Physics Uffink, Jos 2004
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