Mean square fluctuation

The microcanonical ensemble is a certain model for the repetition of experiments in every repetition, the system has exactly the same energy, Wand F but otherwise there is no experimental control over its microstate. Because the microcanonical ensemble distribution depends only on the total energy, which is a constant of motion, it is time independent and mean values calculated with it are also time independent. This is as it should be for an equilibrium system. Besides the ensemble average value (il), another coimnonly used average is the most probable value, which is the value of tS(p, q) that is possessed by the largest number of systems in the ensemble. The ensemble average and the most probable value are nearly equal if the mean square fluctuation is small, i.e. if... 

If this condition is not satisfied, there is no unique way of calculating the observed value of ff, and the validity of the statistical mechanics should be questioned. In all physical examples, the mean square fluctuations are of the order of 1/Wand vanish in the thennodynamic limit. 

Both (E) and Cy are extensive quantities and proportional to N or the system size. The root mean square fluctuation m energy is therefore proportional to A7 -, and the relative fluctuation in energy is... 

The average value and root mean square fluctuations in volume Vof the T-P ensemble system can be computed from the partition fiinction Y(T, P, N) ... 

Since 5(A /5 j. (N), tlie fractional root mean square fluctuation in N is... 

Comparing the two results and substituting the relation of the mean square number fluctuations to isothennal compressibility, equation (A2.2.128) one has... 

If we consider the scattering from a general two-phase system (figure B 1.9.10) distinguished by indices 1 and 2) containing constant electron density in each phase, we can define an average electron density and a mean square density fluctuation as ... 

For purposes of exploring fluctuations and determining the convergence of these statistical averages the root mean square (RMSl deviation m x is also computed ... 

Noise. So fat, as indicated at the beginning of this section on semiconductor statistics, equihbtium statistics have been considered. Actually, there ate fluctuations about equihbtium values, AN = N— < N >. For electrons, the mean-square fluctuation is given by < ANf >=< N > 1- ) where (Ai(D)) is the Fermi-Dirac distribution. This mean-square fluctuation has a maximum of one-fourth when E = E-. These statistical fluctuations act as electrical noise and limit minimum signal levels. 

Vfjp is the friction velocity and =/pVV2 is the wall stress. The friction velocity is of the order of the root mean square velocity fluctuation perpendicular to the wall in the turbulent core. The dimensionless distance from the wall is y+ = yu p/. . The universal velocity profile is vahd in the wall region for any cross-sectional channel shape. For incompressible flow in constant diameter circular pipes, = AP/4L where AP is the pressure drop in length L. In circular pipes, Eq. (6-44) gives a surprisingly good fit to experimental results over the entire cross section of the pipe, even though it is based on assumptions which are vahd only near the pipe wall. 

Time series plots give a useful overview of the processes studied. However, in order to compare different simulations to one another or to compare the simulation to experimental results it is necessary to calculate average values and measure fluctuations. The most common average is the root-mean-square (rms) average, which is given by the second moment of the distribution. 

Figure 14 Measures of disorder m the acyl chains from an MD simulation of a fluid phase DPPC bilayer, (a) Order parameter profile of the C—H bonds (b) root-mean-square fluctuation of the H atoms averaged over 100 ps.

To make contact with the diffusion-in-a-sphere model, we have defined the spherical radius as the root-mean-square fluctuation of the protons averaged over 100 ps. The varia-... 

Audible sound has a frequency range of approximately 20 Hertz (Hz) to 20 kilohertz (kHz) and the pressure ranges from 20 x 10 N/M to 200 N/M. A pure tone produces the simplest type of wave form, that of a sine wave (Figure 42.1). The average pressure fluctuation is zero, and measurements are thus made in terms of the root mean square (rms) of the pressure variation. For the sine wave the rms is 0.707 times the peak value. 

These fluctuations will affect the motion of charged particles. A major part of the Lamb shift in a hydrogen atom can be understood as the contribution to the energy from the interaction of the electron with these zero point oscillations of the electromagnetic field. The qualitative explanation runs as follows the mean square of the electric and magnetic field intensities in the vacuum state is equal to... 

If the magnitude of the fluctuating velocity component is the same in each of the three principal directions, the flow is termed isotropic. If they are different the flow is said to be anisotropic. Thus, if the root mean square values of the random velocity components... 

The average value of the asymmetrical fluctuation is defined as the root mean square (rms) value. Using the Rayleigh theorem,94 the average value of the surface concentration fluctuation, for example, can be written as... 

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