Comparison of Standard Statistical Thermodynamics with Generalized Statistical Thermodynamics Results for Ising Chain

5 D ec 1 99 6 Comparison of the Standard Statistical Thermodynamics ( SST ) with the Generalized Statistical Thermodynamics ( GST ) Results for the Ising Chain

In this study, the internal energy and the specific heat of the one-dimensional Ising model obtained in the frame of the generalized statistical thermodynamics (GST) by R.F.S. Andrade (ref.[19]), have been extended somewhat and compared with the internal energy and the specific heat which have been calculated in the standard (conventional) statistical thermodynam-ics. In the q → 1 case, approac...

Statistical thermodynamics for chain molecules with simple RNA tertiary contacts.

A statistical thermodynamic model is developed for chain molecules with simple RNA tertiary contacts. The model, which accounts for the excluded volume effect and the nonadditivity in the free energy, enables reliable predictions for the conformational entropy and partition function for simple tertiary folds. Illustrative applications are made to conformational transitions involving simple tert...

Simulating Metabolism with Statistical Thermodynamics

New methods are needed for large scale modeling of metabolism that predict metabolite levels and characterize the thermodynamics of individual reactions and pathways. Current approaches use either kinetic simulations, which are difficult to extend to large networks of reactions because of the need for rate constants, or flux-based methods, which have a large number of feasible solutions because...

Statistical Thermodynamics - Fall 2009

Molecular theory can be considered as a preliminary to statistical physics. While the latter employs a more sophisticated formalism encompassing quantum-mechanical systems, the former operates with a classical ideal gas. Molecular theory studies the relation between the temperature of the gas and the kinetic energy of the molecules, pressure on the walls due to the impact of the molecules, dist...

Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics