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AndreasC
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Not sure if this is the appropriate forum for this, hopefully if it isn't someone can move it to a more appropriate place.
The fundamental postulate of equal a priori probabilities in statistical physics asserts that all accessible microstates states in an ensemble happen with equal probability. It is an important assumption for proving a number of important results, like the form of the partition functions in microcanonical and canonical ensembles etc. My question is, are there any significant cases that statistical physics still deals with where equal a priori probabilities can not be assumed and other assumptions have to be made?
The fundamental postulate of equal a priori probabilities in statistical physics asserts that all accessible microstates states in an ensemble happen with equal probability. It is an important assumption for proving a number of important results, like the form of the partition functions in microcanonical and canonical ensembles etc. My question is, are there any significant cases that statistical physics still deals with where equal a priori probabilities can not be assumed and other assumptions have to be made?