|
Portions of this entry contributed by Peter J. Walsh
An ensemble of systems in contact with a heat reservoir for which  and  or  and  are specified. Grand canonical ensembles have probability distributions of
 |
(1) |
where is the energy of state r,
 is the number of states and
 Canonical Ensemble, Chemical Potential, Ensemble
Fowler, R. H. and Guggenheim, E. A. Statistical Thermodynamics: A Version of Statistical Mechanics for Students of Physics and Chemistry.
Cambridge, England: University Press, p. 541, 1949.
© 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein
|
