Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics
Developed with Especial Reference to the Rational Foundation of Thermodynamics

Table of Contents

Preface
1. General notions. The principle of conservation of extension-in-phase
2. Application of the principle of conservation of extension-in-phase to the theory of errors
3. Application of the principle of conservation of extension-in-phase to the integration of the differential equations of motion
4. On the distribution-in-phase called canonical, in which the index of probability is a linear function of the energy
5. Average values in a canonical ensemble of systems
6. Extension-in-configuration and extension-in-velocity
7. Farther discussion of averages in a canonical ensemble of systems
8. On certain important functions of the energies of a system
9. The function Φ and the canonical distribution
10. On a distribution in phase called microcanonical in which all the systems have the same energy
11. Maximum and minimum properties of various distributions in phase
12. On the motion of systems and ensembles of systems through long periods of time
13. Effect of various processes on an ensemble of systems
14. Discussion of thermodynamic analogies
15. Systems composed of molecules.

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