Abstract

The extraction of the basic equations of thermodynamics for a grand canonical ensemble of small systems is reviewed briefly. A modified formula for the fluctuation in the number of particles in a small system, for which the extensive property may not hold, is derived in terms of the isothermal compressibility.

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