Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution

Like chemistry.

Specifically, the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, which physicists use to describe the speeds of particles in a gas.

Wait, he used gas physics to write for a string orchestra? How does that even work in practice? I mean, seriously.

Think of a closed room filled with gas.

Xenakis treated his string players like gas molecules.

OK.

Instead of telling them what melody to play, He used the Maxwell-Boltzmann equations to calculate a massive distribution of speeds and pitches.

He translated those particle speeds into pizzicati short plucked notes on the strings.

It vanishes here and vanishes at infinity.

This is called the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.

You don't have to remember any names, but that is the detailed property of what's happening in a gas.

So, a temperature does not pick a unique velocity, If you vary your temperature, look at what you have to do.