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[QUOTE="Oxvillian, post: 4492718, member: 432846"] Hello lamq_31! I think this problem may be easier than it at first appears - here's a few comments: I think the boundary value business is probably trivial - you just have to imagine filling up all of space with little cubes of side L, all of which have the same initial probability density as your original cube. Because the Hamiltonian is independent of position, the probability density will continue to be periodic in q at any future time. Next comment is that all the particles are doing exactly the same thing, so you can just think about what one particle is doing. That reduces your degrees of freedom from 3N to 3! So then you write down your Liouville equation for one particle (for what it's worth there should be a - sign in the middle of that equation). That should tell you what you expected anyway - that the probability fluid in phase space just drifts along in q-space with speed determined by its momentum. What I don't understand is why they've given you that integral - it's an integral for the entropy of the system (which stays constant). I don't think it's needed to solve the problem at hand. :confused: [/QUOTE]
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