Liouville's theorem

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Liouville's theorem is an expression of the conservation of volume of phase space:

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where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \varrho} is a distribution function Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \varrho(p,q)} , p is the generalised momenta and q are the generalised coordinates.

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