By Sidney B. Cahn, Gerald D. Mahan, Boris E. Nadgorny, Max Dresden
In order to equip hopeful graduate scholars with the information essential to cross the qualifying exam, the authors have assembled and solved usual and unique difficulties from significant American universities – Boston college, college of Chicago, college of Colorado at Boulder, Columbia, collage of Maryland, collage of Michigan, Michigan country, Michigan Tech, MIT, Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford, Stony Brook, collage of Tennessee at Knoxville, and the collage of Wisconsin at Madison – and Moscow Institute of Physics and expertise. quite a lot of fabric is roofed and comparisons are made among related difficulties of alternative faculties to supply the coed with sufficient info to think cozy and assured on the examination. Guide to Physics Problems is released in volumes: this e-book, Part 2, covers Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics; Part 1, covers Mechanics, Relativity and Electrodynamics.
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38 Entropy of Ideal Gas (Princeton) A vessel of volume contains N molecules of an ideal gas held at temperature and pressure The energy of a molecule may be written in the form where denotes the energy levels corresponding to the internal states of the molecules of the gas. a) Evaluate the free energy F. Explicitly display the dependence on the volume Now consider another vessel, also at temperature containing the same number of molecules of the identical gas held at pressure b) Give an expression for the total entropy of the two gases in terms of c) The vessels are then connected to permit the gases to mix without doing work.
39 21 Chemical Potential of Ideal Gas (Stony Brook) Derive the expression for the Gibbs free energy and chemical potential of N molecules of an ideal gas at temperature pressure P, and volume V. Assume that all the molecules are in the electronic ground state with degeneracy At what temperature is this approximation valid? 40 Gas in Harmonic Well (Boston) A classical system of N distinguishable noninteracting particles of mass is placed in a three-dimensional harmonic well: a) Find the partition function and the Helmholtz free energy.
At some point, the chamber is vented so that it is filled with air up to atmospheric pressure, whereupon the valve is closed. The temperature of the air surrounding the chamber is What is the temperature T of the gas in the chamber immediately after venting? 28 Cylinder and Heat Bath (Stony Brook) Consider a cylinder 1 m long with a thin, massless piston clamped in such a way that it divides the cylinder into two equal parts. The cylinder is in a large heat bath at The left side of the cylinder contains 1 mole of helium gas at 4 atm.