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This document provides an introduction to statistical mechanics. It discusses how statistical mechanics is needed to describe macroscopic systems with many degrees of freedom, as the behavior of individual constituents cannot be known. It introduces key concepts like the canonical ensemble and defines microscopic and macroscopic states. The document explains that time averages can be replaced by ensemble averages due to the ergodic hypothesis, and different ensembles like canonical and grand canonical descr

Author

Gilvan Pirôpo

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EN