Practice Problems 8

Thermodynamics & Statistical mechanics

1. Consider a free gas with N particles and internal energy E inside a container of volume V . Starting from the SackurTetrode formula for the entropy
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 3h2 3/2 N 52 i
S(E, V, N ) = N k ln
3
2
m
VE2
Find the free energy F , the enthalpy H, and the Gibbs free energy G.
2. Consider a system of two atoms, each having only 3 quantum states of energies 0,  and 2. The system is in contact
with a heat reservoir at temperature T . Write down the partition function Z for the system if the particle obey
(a) Classical statistics and are distinguishable.
(b) Classical statistics and are indistinguishable.
(c) Fermi-Dirac statistics.
(d) Bose-Einstein statistics.