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Sheldon Cooper
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Hello,
Am having this confusion that in Boltzmann approach to Statistical Mechanics, the phase space was divided into small phase cells whose magnitude was of the order of (h^f) but Boltzmann also made the assumption that the smallest phase cell must contain a large number of atoms. Doesn't this seem a contradictory statement as (h ~ 10^(-34)) and for a simple mono-atomic gas the degrees of freedom (f = 3). So the phase cell element volume seems to be order of (10^(-102)) but the atomic diameter is of the Angstrom order. Thanks in advance.
Am having this confusion that in Boltzmann approach to Statistical Mechanics, the phase space was divided into small phase cells whose magnitude was of the order of (h^f) but Boltzmann also made the assumption that the smallest phase cell must contain a large number of atoms. Doesn't this seem a contradictory statement as (h ~ 10^(-34)) and for a simple mono-atomic gas the degrees of freedom (f = 3). So the phase cell element volume seems to be order of (10^(-102)) but the atomic diameter is of the Angstrom order. Thanks in advance.