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In this chapter the statistical method outlined in section 1.5 is used to derive the thermal equilibrium distribution for a gas. The results will be applied to a wide variety of physical situations in the next four chapters.
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Guénault, A.M. (1988). Gases: The distributions. In: Statistical Physics. Student Physics Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9792-5_5
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