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\title{Problem 1.2}
\subtitle{Probability distributions}
\author{\begin{telugu}హృదయ్ దీపక్ మల్లుభొట్ల\end{telugu}}
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Three distributions:
\begin{enumerate}[(i)]
\item Uniform distribution, $\rho_{uniform}(x) = 1$
\item Exponential distribution, $\rho_{exponential}(t) = e^{-\flatfrac{t}{\tau}}$
\item Gaussian distribution, $\rho_{gaussian}(v) = \flatfrac{e^{\flatfrac{-v^2}{2\sigma^2}}}{\left( \sqrt{2\pi} \sigma \right)}$
\end{enumerate}
\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item Likelihoods
\begin{enumerate}[(i)]
\item What is the probabliity that a random number uniform on $\left[0, 1\right)$ will lie between $x = 0.7$ and $x = 0.75$.
\item That the waiting time for radioactive decay will be more than twice exponential decay time $\tau$?
\item That your score will be above $2 \sigma$ above the mean?
\end{enumerate}
\item Normalization, mean and standard deviation.
\begin{enumerate}[(I)]
\item Show that these probability distributions are normalised.
\item What is the mean $x_0$ of each distribution?
\item The standard deviation $\sqrt{\int \dd{x} \left( x - x_0 \right)^2 \rho(x)}$?
\end{enumerate}
\item Sums of variables
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\item Draw a graph of the probability distribution of the sum $x + y$ for two random variables drawn from a uniform distribution.
\item Argue that in general the sum $z = x+y$ of two random variables with distributions $\rho_1(x)$ and $\rho_2(y)$ will have a distribution given by $\rho(z) = \int \rho_1(x) \rho_2(z-x)$.
\end{enumerate}
\item Multidimensional probability distributions
Given $\rho(v_x, v_y, v_z)$ is the big expression in Sethna $\prod_{i=(x, y, z)} \sqrt{\frac{M}{2\pi k T}} \exp(\frac{-Mv_i^2}{2 kT})$.
\begin{enumerate}
\item Show that the mean kinetic energy is $\frac{kT}{2}$.
\item Show that the probability that the speed is $\abs{v}$ is given by the distribution
\begin{equation}
\rho_{Maxwell}(v) = \sqrt{\frac{2}{\pi}}\frac{v^2}{\sigma^3} \exp(\frac{-v^2}{2 \sigma^2})
\end{equation}
\end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}
\section{Solution} \label{sec:solution}
\subsection{Likelihoods} \label{subsec:sola}
These are quite simple, straightforward integrals, so avoiding the details here.
\begin{enumerate}[(i)]
\item $\frac12$
\item $\frac{1}{e^2}$
\item $\flatfrac{(1 - \erf(\sqrt{2}))}{2} \approx 0.023$.
Sethna really seems to give this one to the solver.
\end{enumerate}
\subsection{Standard Deviations}
Normalisation is quite simple.
Means are
\begin{enumerate}[(i)]
\item $\frac12$
\item $\tau$
\item $0$
\end{enumerate}
Standard deviations are
\begin{enumerate}[(i)]
\item
\begin{align}
\sigma_{uniform} &= \sqrt{\int_0^1 \dd{x} \left( x - \frac12 \right)^2} \\
&= \sqrt{\left. \frac13 \left( x - \frac12 \right)^3 \right|_0^1} \\
&= \sqrt{\frac13 \left(\frac14 \right)} \\
\sigma_{uniform} &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{12}}
\end{align}
\item
\begin{align}
\sigma_{exponential} &= \sqrt{\int_0^\infty \dd{t} \left(t - \tau \right)^2 e^{\flatfrac{-t}{\tau}}} \\
&= \tau
\end{align}
\item
\begin{align}
\sigma_{Gaussian} &= \sqrt{\int_{-\infty}^\infty \dd{v} \left(v\right)^2 \flatfrac{e^{\flatfrac{-v^2}{2\sigma^2}}}{\left( \sqrt{2\pi} \sigma \right)} } \\
&= \sigma
\end{align}
\end{enumerate}
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