Abstract
Given a mechanical system its microscopic states are described by the microscopic configurations of N (identical for simplicity) particles with mass m wandering in a given volume V: such configurations are represented by phase space cells of equal phase space volume h 3N.
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Gallavotti, G. (1999). Statistical Ensembles. In: Statistical Mechanics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03952-6_2
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