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 .
Short Answer
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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The tungsten filament of an incandescent light bulb has a temperature of approximately . The emissivity of tungsten is approximately , and you may assume that it is independent of wavelength.
(a) If the bulb gives off a total of watts, what is the surface area of its filament in square millimetres?
(b) At what value of the photon energy does the peak in the bulb's spectrum occur? What is the wavelength corresponding to this photon energy?
(c) Sketch (or use a computer to plot) the spectrum of light given off by the filament. Indicate the region on the graph that corresponds to visible wavelengths, between.
(d) Calculate the fraction of the bulb's energy that comes out as visible light. (Do the integral numerically on a calculator or computer.) Check your result qualitatively from the graph of part (c).
( e) To increase the efficiency of an incandescent bulb, would you want to raise or lower the temperature? (Some incandescent bulbs do attain slightly higher efficiency by using a different temperature.)
(f) Estimate the maximum possible efficiency (i.e., fraction of energy in the visible spectrum) of an incandescent bulb, and the corresponding filament temperature. Neglect the fact that tungsten melts at .
Sometimes it is useful to know the free energy of a photon gas.
(a) Calculate the (Helmholtz) free energy directly from the definition
(Express the answer in terms of T' and V.)
(b) Check the formula for this system.
(c) Differentiate F with respect to V to obtain the pressure of a photon gas. Check that your result agrees with that of the previous problem.
(d) A more interesting way to calculate F is to apply the formula separately to each mode (that is, each effective oscillator), then sum over all modes. Carry out this calculation, to obtain
Integrate by parts, and check that your answer agrees with part (a).
Starting from the formula for derived in Problem 7.70(b), calculate the entropy, Helmholtz free energy, and pressure of a Bose gas for . Notice that the pressure is independent of volume; how can this be the case?
Prove that the peak of the Planck spectrum is at x = 2.82.
Imagine that there exists a third type of particle, which can share a single-particle state with one other particle of the same type but no more. Thus the number of these particles in any state can be or . Derive the distribution function for the average occupancy of a state by particles of this type, and plot the occupancy as a function of the state's energy, for several different temperatures.
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