Statistical mechanics
MSE-421
Exercise 1 - Stirling-Approximation and Entropy
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Description
In the first two exercises, we show some useful tricks using the Stirling-approximation, and try to get a visual intuition about it. The third exercise shows how we can start from the microscopic definition of entropy to calculate thermodynamic properties of materials using a simple toy system.