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I don't know. I'd say, just post such an "intro posting" and see what happens.
It's started.vanhees71 said:I don't know. I'd say, just post such an "intro posting" and see what happens.
It doesn't matter whether the number of particles is ##N=1## or ##N=10^{23}##. One has to distinguish the number of particles in the system (which doesn't need to be large), from the number of systems in the ensemble (which must be large). In the Gibbs theory of ensembles, an ensemble is a fictitious ensemble; it's a thing we imagine to conceptualize the notion of probability. For example, you can say that the probability of a single coin to be in the heads state is 1/2, but to conceptualize this you can imagine that you flipped this single coin a 1000 times.Philip Koeck said:Then I'll go a step further and decide that the system should consist of a single atom.