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		nakamoto_damacy 49 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte... What I'm getting from this discussion is that we use Statistical Physics to refer to anything covered by Statistical Physics AND Statistical Mechanics, while we use Statistical Mechanics in a narrower context, but it is also possible that some use SM loosely.

kgwgk 48 days ago [–]

> it is also possible that some use SM loosely

I think it’s frequent. For example: https://teach-me-codes.github.io/computational-physics/the_p...

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