Physical Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
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Author: Ball, David W. (david Warren), BAER, Tomas
Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning,
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Chapter 17, Problem 17.42E
Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The E for a particle in a one-dimensional and two-dimensional box is to be determined.

Concept introduction:

Statistical thermodynamics is used to describe all possible configurations in a system at given physical quantities such as pressure, temperature and number of particles in the system. An important quantity in thermodynamics is the partition function that is represented as,

qigiei/kT

Where,

gi represents the degeneracy.

i represents the energy of ith microstate.

k represents the Boltzmann constant with value 1.38×1023J/K.

T represents the temperature (K).

It is also called as canonical ensemble partition function.

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