Chapter 6: Q. 6.50 (page 255)
Show explicitly from the results of this section thatfor an ideal gas.
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Gibb's free energy is given by
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Chapter 6: Q. 6.50 (page 255)
Show explicitly from the results of this section thatfor an ideal gas.
Gibb's free energy is given by
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In this section we computed the single-particle translational partition function,, by summing over all definite-energy wave functions. An alternative approach, however, is to sum over all position and momentum vectors, as we did in Section 2.5. Because position and momentum are continuous variables, the sums are really integrals, and we need to slip a factor of to get a unitless number that actually counts the independent wavefunctions. Thus we might guess the formula
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where the single integral sign actually represents six integrals, three over the position components and three over the momentum components. The region of integration includes all momentum vectors, but only those position vectors that lie within a box of volume . By evaluating the integrals explicitly, show that this expression yields the same result for the translational partition function as that obtained in the text.
Consider a system of two Einstein solids, where the first "solid" contains just a single oscillator, while the second solid contains 100 oscillators. The total number of energy units in the combined system is fixed at 500. Use a computer to make a table of the multiplicity of the combined system, for each possible value of the energy of the first solid from 0 units to 20. Make a graph of the total multiplicity vs. the energy of the first solid, and discuss, in some detail, whether the shape of the graph is what you would expect. Also plot the logarithm of the total multiplicity, and discuss the shape of this graph.
Consider a hypothetical atom that has just two states: a ground state with energy zero and an excited state with energy 2 eV. Draw a graph of the partition function for this system as a function of temperature, and evaluate the partition function numerically at T = 300 K, 3000 K, 30,000 K, and 300,000 K.
Carefully plot the Maxwell speed distribution for nitrogen molecules at and at Plot both graphs on the same axes, and label the axes with numbers.
Fill in the steps between equations 6.51 and 6.52, to determine the average speed of the molecules in an ideal gas.
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