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		selimthegrim on July 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How thick is the atmosphere? A derivation of the B... A similar derivation is given in the first edition of Kittel’s Thermal Physics, as well as in the Quantum Mechanics book by Griffiths IIRC.

kgwgk on July 17, 2018 | [–]

Feynman has a similar dicussion starting from the P=nkT equation: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_40.html

asafira on July 17, 2018 | [–]

Does Kittel define Shannon entropy?

selimthegrim on July 17, 2018 | [–]

I'd have to grab the first edition copy from the library but I think not, he does use Lagrange multipliers though.

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