Frigg, Roman and Werndl, Charlotte (2018) Can Somebody Please Say What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says? The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
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Abstract
Gibbsian statistical mechanics (GSM) is the most widely used version of statistical mechanics among working physicists. Yet a closer look at GSM reveals that it is unclear what the theory actually says and how it bears on experimental
practice. The root cause of the difficulties is the status of the Averaging Principle, the proposition that what we observe in an experiment is the ensemble average of a phase function. We review different stances toward this
principle, and eventually present a coherent interpretation of GSM that provides an account of the status and scope of the principle.
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| Keywords: | statistical mechanics, Gibbs, average, averaging principle, fluctuation, ergodicity, mixing, probabilism | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Condensed Matter Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Depositing User: | Roman Frigg | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2018 22:55 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2018 22:55 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 14869 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | |||||||||
| Publisher: | OUP | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Condensed Matter Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Date: | 2018 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14869 |
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