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Physical Chemistry
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Author: Ball, David W. (david Warren), BAER, Tomas
Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning,
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The units on β are to be stated. The explanation for the corresponding answer is to be stated.

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Statistical thermodynamics is used to describe all possible configurations in a system at given physical quantities such as pressure, temperature and number of particles in the system. The important quantity in thermodynamics is the partition function that is represented as,

qigieβi

It is also called as canonical ensemble partition function.

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