STP Hard Disks Metropolis Program

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written by Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik, Wolfgang Christian, and Anne Cox

The STP Hard Disks Metropolis program is a Monte Carlo simulation of hard disks in two dimensions. The default initial condition is a rectangular configuration of N=64 particles in a box of length L = 40. You can slowly increase the density of the gas (by setting the minimum scale length between centers to a value slightly less than 1) to explore phase transitions.

STP HardDisksMetropolis is part of a suite of Open Source Physics programs that model aspects of Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP). The program is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double-clicking the stp_HardDisksMetropolis.jar file will run the program if Java is installed on your computer. Additional programs can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, STP, or Statistical and Thermal Physics.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java.

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
General Physics - Computational Physics Thermo & Stat Mech - Kinetic and Diffusive Processes = Correlation Function - Models - Phase Transitions = Phase Diagrams	- Upper Undergraduate - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation = Lecture/Presentation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2009 Wolfgang Christian
Additional information is available.
PACSs:: 01.50.hv; 05.10.-a; 07.05.Tp; 05.20.-y
Keywords:: gas compression, osp
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created March 6, 2009 by Anne Cox
Record Updated:: May 26, 2012 by Wolfgang Christian
Last Update when Cataloged:: March 6, 2009
Other Collections:: The Open Source Physics

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STP Hard Disks Metropolis Program:

Is Part Of Statistical and Thermal Physics 2nd Ed. Programs

STP Hard Disk Metropolis Program is a part of STP Application package that contains curricular materials for the teaching of Statistical and Thermal Physics.

relation by Anne Cox

References STP Textbook Chapter 4: The Methodology of Statistical Mechanics

Chapter 4 of Gould and Tobochnik's Statistical and Thermal Physics provides additional underpinnings for the STP Hard Disk Metropolis Program.

relation by Anne Cox

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