/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11388079
I know that you're just being edgy but there are some very lively centenarians, wouldn't euthanize those. Met one 103-year-old who kept cracking me up, her senses had degraded but wit was there.

Can someone help me write a partition function?

z = sum[g*exp(-e/kT)]

where g is the degeneracy of a particular energy level, e is the energy of one state, k is Boltzmann's constant, and T is temperature

So basically I am summing each state in the system with a given energy level?

What exactly does z even mean? I know it used to calculate probability and it's used to plug into the ensemble partition function (Z) in order to calculate state functions like U, H, F, G, S, and P.