Thermal bath (thermodynamics)

Thermal bath (thermodynamics)

In thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, a thermal bath is a reservoir of particles at finite temperature that is in thermal contact and is undergoing Brownian motion. Because of its nonzero temperature, this system contains thermal energy.


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