This is a blog for Math C6.2a at University of Oxford. It is a new module on statistical mechanics for 4th-year mathematics students, and it is was taught for the first time in Fall 2011, so this is year #2.
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Exposition of Derivation of Boltzmann Equation (and More!)
Chapter 2 of this paper has a nice exposition of the derivation of the Boltzmann equation from the Liouville equation for hard spheres. Chapter 1 has a discussion of the Boltzmann-Grad limit, which we also discussed in lectures. This article looks really nice!
(Tip of the cap to Mark Wilkinson.)
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