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Kinetic theory stuff for one, like deposition, growth, sandpile type things. Complex networks and lots of dynamics stuff falls under statistical physics umbrella but not statistical mechanics. Stat mech's amazingly wide applicability makes it easy to think it's THE approach to approaching things statistically, but it's not. The broad encompassing approach has a name, statistical physics.


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