What form of mathematics is heavily used in statistical mechanics?
Geometry
Calculus
Algebra
Trigonometry
Answer
Calculus, the branch of mathematics concerned with continuous change, plays a pivotal role in statistical mechanics, a discipline that seeks to understand the macroscopic properties and behaviors of matter through the statistical analysis of its microscopic constituents.
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