Modern Physics for Engineers Lecture slides 16b – Binomial distribution and Stirling’s approximation
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This lecture part introduces the binomial distribution as the formal description useful for discussing distributions of "heads" and "tails", for example. It then introduces Stirling's approximation, which is very useful for large numbers of particles (or coin tosses), and leads to simple formulas. This also gives simple results for how wide we expect the distribution (of multiplicities) to be. (slides)
Source: Stanford Digital Repository
DOI: 10.25740/tj109rj4343
Author: Miller, David
Language: English
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6926946161
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