A Statistical Theory of Liquids. III

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In the present paper the author incorporates the dissipative processes of heat conduction and viscosity into his theory. In order to do that, he generalizes first the procedures of statistical mechanics in such a way that they might describe processes involving molecular flow. This is achieved in close analogy to Boltzmann's treatment for gases: Boltzmann's integro-differential equation is replaced by Gibbs' principle of "conservation of density-in-phase," and the solution is sought in form of a power series which modifies (slightly) the canonical ensemble. Finally the anisotropic distribution function in real space is obtained by integrating the multidimensional distribution function with regard to all coordinates and moments except those of one particle.

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