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Graduate Why use h instead of ℏ/2 for phase space cell volume in statistical mechanics
In statistical mechanics, nearly all the textbooks say that the volume of the smallest cell in the phase space of a N-particle system is h^{rN} where h is the Planck Constant, r is the degree of freedom. Also these books say that this comes from the uncertainty principle. However, the...- Icefrog
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