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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The most common measure of the fluctuations of a set of numbers away from the average is the standard deviation, defined as follows.
(a) For each atom in the five-atom toy model of Figure 6.5, compute the deviation of the energy from the average energy, that is, . Call these deviations .
(b) Compute the average of the squares of the five deviations, that is, . Then compute the square root of this quantity, which is the root-mean- square (rms) deviation, or standard deviation. Call this number . Does give a reasonable measure of how far the individual values tend to stray from the average?
(c) Prove in general that
that is, the standard deviation squared is the average of the squares minus the square of the average. This formula usually gives the easier way of computing a standard deviation.
(d) Check the preceding formula for the five-atom toy model of Figure 6.5.
Imagine a world in which space is two-dimensional, but the laws of physics are otherwise the same. Derive the speed distribution formula for an ideal gas of nonrelativistic particles in this fictitious world, and sketch this distribution. Carefully explain the similarities and differences between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional cases. What is the most likely velocity vector? What is the most likely speed?
This problem concerns a collection of N identical harmonic oscillators (perhaps an Einstein solid or the internal vibrations of gas molecules) at temperature T. As in Section 2.2, the allowed energies of each oscillator are 0, hf, 2hf, and so on. (
a) Prove by long division that
For what values of x does this series have a finite sum?
(b) Evaluate the partition function for a single harmonic oscillator. Use the result of part (a) to simplify your answer as much as possible.
(c) Use formula 6.25 to find an expression for the average energy of a single oscillator at temperature T. Simplify your answer as much as possible.
(d) What is the total energy of the system of N oscillators at temperature T? Your result should agree with what you found in Problem 3.25.
(e) If you haven't already done so in Problem 3.25, compute the heat capacity of this system and check t hat it has the expected limits as and .
Consider an ideal gas of highly relativistic particles ( such as photons or fast-moving electrons) whose energy-momentum relation is instead of . Assume that these particles live in a one-dimensional universe. By following the same logic as above, derive a formula for the single particle partition function,, for one particle in the gas.
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.
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