Chapter 7: Q. 7.29 (page 285)
Carry out the Sommerfeld expansion for the energy integral , to obtain equation . Then plug in the expansion for to obtain the final answer, equation .
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The final answer, equation is.
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Chapter 7: Q. 7.29 (page 285)
Carry out the Sommerfeld expansion for the energy integral , to obtain equation . Then plug in the expansion for to obtain the final answer, equation .
The final answer, equation is.
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For a system of bosons at room temperature, compute the average occupancy of a single-particle state and the probability of the state containing bosons, if the energy of the state is
(a) greater than
(b) greater than
(c) greater than
(d) greater than
The argument given above for why does not depend on the details of the energy levels available to the fermions, so it should also apply to the model considered in Problem 7.16: a gas of fermions trapped in such a way that the energy levels are evenly spaced and non-degenerate.
(a) Show that, in this model, the number of possible system states for a given value of q is equal to the number of distinct ways of writing q as a sum of positive integers. (For example, there are three system states for q = 3, corresponding to the sums 3, 2 + 1, and 1 + 1 + 1. Note that 2 + 1 and 1 + 2 are not counted separately.) This combinatorial function is called the number of unrestricted partitions of q, denoted p(q). For example, p(3) = 3.
(b) By enumerating the partitions explicitly, compute p(7) and p(8).
(c) Make a table of p(q) for values of q up to 100, by either looking up the values in a mathematical reference book, or using a software package that can compute them, or writing your own program to compute them. From this table, compute the entropy, temperature, and heat capacity of this system, using the same methods as in Section 3.3. Plot the heat capacity as a function of temperature, and note that it is approximately linear.
(d) Ramanujan and Hardy (two famous mathematicians) have shown that when q is large, the number of unrestricted partitions of q is given approximately by
Check the accuracy of this formula for q = 10 and for q = 100. Working in this approximation, calculate the entropy, temperature, and heat capacity of this system. Express the heat. capacity as a series in decreasing powers of , assuming that this ratio is large and keeping the two largest terms. Compare to the numerical results you obtained in part (c). Why is the heat capacity of this system independent of N, unlike that of the three dimensional box of fermions discussed in the text?
A black hole is a blackbody if ever there was one, so it should emit blackbody radiation, called Hawking radiation. A black hole of mass M has a total energy of , a surface area of , and a temperature of(as shown in Problem 3.7).
(a) Estimate the typical wavelength of the Hawking radiation emitted by a one-solar-mass (2 x 1030 kg) black hole. Compare your answer to the size of the black hole.
(b) Calculate the total power radiated by a one-solar-mass black hole.
(c) Imagine a black hole in empty space, where it emits radiation but absorbs nothing. As it loses energy, its mass must decrease; one could say it "evaporates." Derive a differential equation for the mass as a function of time, and solve this equation to obtain an expression for the lifetime of a black hole in terms of its initial mass.
(d) Calculate the lifetime of a one-solar-mass black hole, and compare to the estimated age of the known universe (1010 years).
(e) Suppose that a black hole that was created early in the history of the universe finishes evaporating today. What was its initial mass? In what part of the electromagnetic spectrum would most of its radiation have been emitted?
Starting from equation 7.83, derive a formula for the density of states of a photon gas (or any other gas of ultra relativistic particles having two polarisation states). Sketch this function.
In Problem you found the density of states and the chemical potential for a two-dimensional Fermi gas. Calculate the heat capacity of this gas in the limit role="math" localid="1650099524353" 路 Also show that the heat capacity has the expected behavior when . Sketch the heat capacity as a function of temperature.
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