Chapter 7: Q. 7.65 (page 323)
Evaluate the integral in equation numerically, to confirm the value quoted in the text.
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The integral in equationis evaluated in simpler form.
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Chapter 7: Q. 7.65 (page 323)
Evaluate the integral in equation numerically, to confirm the value quoted in the text.
The integral in equationis evaluated in simpler form.
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Consider a free Fermi gas in two dimensions, confined to a square area 鈥
(a) Find the Fermi energy (in terms of and ), and show that the average energy of the particles is .
(b) Derive a formula for the density of states. You should find that it is a constant, independent of .
(c) Explain how the chemical potential of this system should behave as a function of temperature, both when role="math" localid="1650186338941" and when is much higher.
(d) Because is a constant for this system, it is possible to carry out the integral 7.53 for the number of particles analytically. Do so, and solve for as a function of . Show that the resulting formula has the expected qualitative behavior.
(e) Show that in the high-temperature limit, , the chemical potential of this system is the same as that of an ordinary ideal gas.
Problem 7.67. In the first achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation with atomic hydrogen, a gas of approximately atoms was trapped and cooled until its peak density was. Calculate the condensation temperature for this system, and compare to the measured value of.
In analogy with the previous problem, consider a system of identical spintrapped in a region where the energy levels are evenly spaced. Assume that is a large number, and again let be the number of energy units.
(a) Draw diagrams representing all allowed system states from up to .Instead of using dots as in the previous problem, use numbers to indicate the number of bosons occupying each level.
(b) Compute the occupancy of each energy level, for . Draw a graph of the occupancy as a function of the energy at each level.
(c) Estimate values of and that you would have to plug into the Bose-Einstein distribution to best fit the graph of part(b).
(d) As in part (d) of the previous problem, draw a graph of entropy vs energy and estimate the temperature at from this graph.
Number of photons in a photon gas.
(a) Show that the number of photons in equilibrium in a box of volume V at temperature T is
The integral cannot be done analytically; either look it up in a table or evaluate it numerically.
(b) How does this result compare to the formula derived in the text for the entropy of a photon gas? (What is the entropy per photon, in terms of k?)
(c) Calculate the number of photons per cubic meter at the following temperatures: 300 K; 1500 K (a typical kiln); 2.73 K (the cosmic background radiation).
The sun is the only star whose size we can easily measure directly; astronomers therefore estimate the sizes of other stars using Stefan's law.
(a) The spectrum of Sirius A, plotted as a function of energy, peaks at a photon energy of, while Sirius A is approximately times as luminous as the sun. How does the radius of Sirius A compare to the sun's radius?
(b) Sirius B, the companion of Sirius A (see Figure 7.12), is only role="math" localid="1647765883396" as luminous as the sun. Its spectrum, plotted as a function of energy, peaks at about. How does its radius compare to that of the sun?
(c) The spectrum of the star Betelgeuse, plotted as a function of energy, peaks at a photon energy of , while Betelgeuse is approximatelytimes as luminous as the sun. How does the radius of Betelgeuse compare to the sun's radius? Why is Betelgeuse called a "red supergiant"?
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