Thank you for your reply!
I have been discussing this on another forum as well. There it was explained to me that q and F arise from approximation of the discrete model with a continuous one, so that the derivation with additional steps, would look something like
-\langle \sum_{k=1}^{N}...
Hi!
I am trying to understand the statistical mechanics derivation of the ideal gas law shown at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas_law inder "Derivations".
First of all, the statement "Then the time average momentum of the particle is:
\langle \mathbf{q} \cdot \mathbf{F} \rangle=...