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Tutorial 2-StatisticalPhysics

The document presents a series of problems related to thermal and statistical physics, focusing on concepts such as microstates, entropy, and the behavior of particles in different statistical ensembles. It covers calculations involving fermions and bosons, the equipartition theorem, de Broglie wavelength, and partition functions in both microcanonical and canonical ensembles. Additionally, it discusses the average number of photons and the Helmholtz free energy in a non-interacting particle system.

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Tutorial 2-StatisticalPhysics

The document presents a series of problems related to thermal and statistical physics, focusing on concepts such as microstates, entropy, and the behavior of particles in different statistical ensembles. It covers calculations involving fermions and bosons, the equipartition theorem, de Broglie wavelength, and partition functions in both microcanonical and canonical ensembles. Additionally, it discusses the average number of photons and the Helmholtz free energy in a non-interacting particle system.

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Problems (Part-2- NPHI101, Thermal and Statistical Physics)

1. Consider the scenario in micro-canonical ensemble. 4 particles are kept in 16 boxes.


Calculate the number of microstates, if the particles are fermions. Calculate the entropy
per particle.
2. Write the difference between bosons and fermions.
3. Write the single particle state grand partition function. Calculate occupation no for bosons
and fermions.
4. Graphically show how the average particle no vary with the energy of a state.
5. Find out how many ways 3 particles can be distributed in 2 boxes according to MB, BE
and FD statistics.
6. State the equipartition theorem. Prove the same theorem.
7. What is the de Broglie wavelength? Calculate the same for an electron of mass 9.1 ×
10−31 kg moving at a velocity 2 × 106 m/s.
8. Consider a three level system of N particles which are non-interacting and distinguishable.
The lowest energy level has zero energy that is called ground state. The excited energy
levels are ε and 2ε. Consider that n number of particles are distributed equally in the two
excited levels meaning that n/2 particles are in each exited energy levels.
I. What is the total energy of the system?
II. Calculate the number of microstates in microcanonical ensemble.
III. Calculate the entropy in microcanonical ensemble and simplify.
Hint: Use Stirling’s approximation ln N! =NlnN – N for simplification.
IV. Calculate the partition function of the system in canonical ensemble using single
particle partition function.
V. Calculate the average energy < E> of the system using the partition function.
VI. Calculate the entropy in canonical ensemble using the partition function and the
average energy.

9. The chemical potential of a photon is zero. At 500K, find the average number of photons
in certain state that has energy 0.1 eV.
10. In a N-particle system (non-interacting) of canonical ensemble the thermodynamic
Helmholtz free energy is F = −NkBT ln(1 + e−βϵ). Find the entropy using thermodynamic
relation. Calculate the total partition function in statistical physics?

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