An important question in statistical mechanics is how the energy of the whole many particle system distributes over the individual particles? Or in other words what are the energies of the individual ...

Explore the Collective Motion of Humans in mosh pits, revealing surprising parallels to gas particles and the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Are humans that different from gas particles? Not ...

Temperature as a game of marbles: The Boltzmann distribution states how many particles have which energy, and can be illustrated with the aid of spheres that are distributed in a hilly landscape. At ...

Two seemingly different areas of physics are related in subtle ways: Quantum theory and thermodynamics. How can the laws of thermodynamics arise from the laws of quantum physics? This question has now ...

Most people agree that carbon dioxide emissions need to be drastically cut. One way to do this is by emissions trading. The idea is to cap the total emissions that are allowed and then allocate ...