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6 .βis a ‘potentialfor energyU’andthus relates to temperature. Note theincon-
sistency in the sign of βbetween different authors as apossible cause of
confusion.
7 .Theformulaβ=− 1 /kkkBTgives a statisticaldefinition oftemperature, which
agrees with the usual thermodynamic definition.
8. Inclusion of T explicitlyintheBoltzmann distribution isoften usefulin
applicationsinwhichwe specifya(T,V,N)macrostate.