Chapter 9: Q29E (page 404)
In a large system of distinguishable harmonic oscillator how high does the temperature have to be for the probable number of particles occupying the ground state to be less than 1 ?
Short Answer
The temperature is
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Chapter 9: Q29E (page 404)
In a large system of distinguishable harmonic oscillator how high does the temperature have to be for the probable number of particles occupying the ground state to be less than 1 ?
The temperature is
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Suppose that in Figure 9.27, the level labelled , rather than the one labelled, were metastable. Might the material still function as a laser? Explain.
What is special about a metastable Stale, and why is it so useful ina laser? Why wouldn't a non-metastable state at the same energy work?
Exercise 54 calculates the three oscillator distributions'values in the special case whereis. Using a very common approximation technique. show that in the more general low-temperature limit,occupation numbers become, and 1, for the distinguishable. boson. and fermion cases, respectively. Comment on these results. (Note: Although we assume that. we also still assume that levels are closely spaced-that is ,
The Stirling approximation., is very handy when dealing with numbers larger than about . Consider the following ratio: the number of ways Nparticles can be evenly divided between two halves of a room to the number of ways they can be divided withon the right andon the left.
(a) Show, using the Stirling approximation, that the ratio is approximatelyfor large.
(b) Explain how this fits with the claim that average behaviours become more predictable in large systems.
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