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The '''thermodynamic limit''' is reached as the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a system approaches infinity. The thermodynamic behavior of a system is asymptotically approximated by the results of [[statistical mechanics]] as <math>N \rightarrow \infty</math>, and calculations using the various ensembles converge. | The '''thermodynamic limit''' is reached as the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a system approaches infinity. The thermodynamic behavior of a system is asymptotically approximated by the results of [[statistical mechanics]] as <math>N \rightarrow \infty</math>, and calculations using the various ensembles converge. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.16103 A. Compagner "Thermodynamics as the continuum limit of statistical mechanics", American Journal of Physics '''57''' pp. 106-117 (1989)] | #[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.16103 A. Compagner "Thermodynamics as the continuum limit of statistical mechanics", American Journal of Physics '''57''' pp. 106-117 (1989)] | ||
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1621028 Daniel F. Styer "What good is the thermodynamic limit?", American Journal of Physics '''72''' pp. 25-29 (2004)] | #[http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1621028 Daniel F. Styer "What good is the thermodynamic limit?", American Journal of Physics '''72''' pp. 25-29 (2004)] | ||