< Page:Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics (1902).djvu
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
78
AVERAGE VALUES IN A CANONICAL
or since by (218)
where represents the operator . Similar expressions relating to the potential energy may be derived from (232).
the general formula reduces to
or
| (231) |
In precisely the same way we may obtain for the potential energy
| (232) |
By successive applications of (231) we obtain
For the kinetic energy we may write similar equations in which the averages may be taken either for a single configuration or for the whole ensemble. But since
| (233) |
| (234) |
This article is issued from Wikisource. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.