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In the previous chapters we obtained expressions for various thermodynamic properties containing distribution functions, but did not present recipes for calculating them. At low densities ρ (n) can be found by means of density expansions (cf. Sect. 3.6). When this procedure is used, the resulting distribution functions are exact to a given order in the number density ρ, and the resulting properties are also exact to some order in ρ no matter which route to thermodynamics is used: the energy, pressure, or compressibility equation of state. Thus, in using density expansion techniques, one does not confront the problem of thermodynamic consistency.
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Kalikmanov, V.I. (2001). Theories of correlation functions. In: Statistical Physics of Fluids. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04536-7_8
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