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In this paper we extend Chandrasekhar and von Neumann's analysis of the statistics of the gravitational field to systems in which particles (e.g. stars, galaxies) are not homogeneously distributed. We derive a distribution function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Del Popolo , M. Gambera , x

In this paper we extend Chandrasekhar and von Neumann's analysis of the statistics of the gravitational field to systems in which particles (e.g. stars, galaxies) are not homogeneously distributed. We derive a distribution function W(F,d…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Del Popolo

In this paper I extend the results of Ahmad & Cohen (1973), regarding the study of the probability distribution of the stochastic force in homogeneous gravitational systems, to inhomogeneous gravitational ones. To this aim, I study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Del Popolo

In this paper, I test by numerical simulations the results of Del Popolo & Gambera (1998),dealing with the extension of Chandrasekhar and von Neumann's analysis of the statistics of the gravitational field to systems in which particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Del Popolo

We investigate the statistical distribution of Newtonian gravitational forces acting on a test particle embedded in an infinite, homogeneous, and uncorrelated random gas of point masses. Using order statistics, we derive the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Constantin Payerne , Vincent Rossetto

The density of states of self-gravitational system diverges when the particles are spread to infinity. Other problem based an inhomogeneous distribution of particles,which motivate the gravitational interaction. In this sense the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-15 B. I. Lev

We consider the statistical properties of the gravitational field F in an infinite one-dimensional homogeneous Poisson distribution of particles, using an exponential cut-off of the pair interaction to control and study the divergences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Andrea Gabrielli , Michael Joyce

We present a systematic investigation of the distribution of normal forces at the boundaries of static packings of spheres. A new method for the efficient construction of large hexagonal-close-packed crystals is introduced and used to study…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel L. Blair , Nathan W. Mueggenburg , Adam H. Marshall , Heinrich M. Jaeger , Sidney R. Nagel

We study the statistics of the gravitational (Newtonian) force in a particular kind of weakly correlated distribution of point-like and unitary mass particles generated by the so-called Gauss-Poisson point process. In particular we extend…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrea Gabrielli , Adolfo Paolo Masucci , Francesco Sylos Labini

We study the (newtonian) gravitational force distribution arising from a fractal set of sources. We show that, in the case of real structures in finite samples, an important role is played by morphological properties and finite size…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Gabrielli , F. Sylos Labini , S. Pellegrini

Self-gravitating system are non-equilibrium a priory. A new approach is proposed, which employs a non-equilibrium statistical operator into account inhomogeneous distribution of particles and temperature. The method involves the saddle -…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-12 B. I. Lev

We study the statistics of the force felt by a particle in the class of spatially correlated distribution of identical point-like particles, interacting via a $1/r^2$ pair force (i.e. gravitational or Coulomb), and obtained by randomly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Gabrielli , T. Baertschiger , M. Joyce , B. Marcos , F. Sylos Labini

We present first elements of kinetic theory appropriate to the inhomogeneous phase of the HMF model. In particular, we investigate the case of strongly inhomogeneous distributions for $T\to 0$ and exhibit curious behaviour of the force…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. H. Chavanis

The friction force, friction coefficients and the effects on the dynamics of particles, bodies and systems, are fundamental themes in university physics of the first cycles and also in general physics courses of upper secondary education in…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-10-01 Mauricio López-Reyes

The microcanonical partition function for self-gravitational system in three dimensional case has been found. Used approach from the field theory of statistical description of the system was tailored to gravitational interacting particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-15 B. I. Lev

We have studied the distribution of forces in gravitational systems through numerical experiments. Data were taken from an N-body simulation in an expanding universe. Before clustering, the distribution of random forces was represented as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Eliani Ardi , Shogo Inagaki

This paper uses dynamical invariants to describe the evolution of collisionless systems subject to time-dependent gravitational forces without resorting to maximum-entropy probabilities. We show that collisionless relaxation can be viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Jorge Peñarrubia

It seems that a stochastic system must be a nonlinear one to observe the phenomenon, noise induced transition. But in the present paper, we have demonstrated that the phenomenon may be observed even in a linear stochastic process where both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-04 Shrabani Mondal , L. R. Rahul Biswas , Mousumi Biswas , Bidhan Chandra Bag

Diffusion of colloidal particles in a complex environment such as polymer networks or biological cells is a topic of high complexity with significant biological and medical relevance. In such situations, the interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-10 Andreas M. Menzel

The evolution of the force distributions during the isotropic compression of two dimensional packings of soft frictional particles is investigated numerically. Regardless of the applied deformation, the normal contact force distribution can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-25 Jens Boberski , M. Reza Shaebani , Dietrich E. Wolf
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