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Canonical partition of a boson gas
I have a 1D gas made of $N$ particles placed in a harmonic potential well, so the Hamiltonian is:
$$ \mathcal H = \sum_{j=1}^N \left ( \frac{p_j^2}{2m} + \frac{1}{2}m\omega^2 x_j^2 \right )$$
The ...
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Is it possible to find the number of gas atoms/molecules in a box when the number is small?
Given very low number of particles in a system (e.g. in the 100s), is there a way to accurately measure the number of particles in the system? Assume temperature, pressure and volume is constant and ...
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Ideal gas and diatomic gas with same temperature
If a box of ideal gas and another box of diatomic gas are in thermal equilibrium,
does it mean that the average translational energy of ideal gas particle (A) is the same as that of diatomic gas ...
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May molecules of ideal gases have an inner structure?
The following question is probably very elementary:
whether molecules of ideal gases may have optic properties?
As far as I understand, when one discusses optic properties, one assumes that molecules ...
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Black body balloon in vacuum [closed]
The problem statement, all variables and given/known data
There is a perfectly spherical balloon with surface painted black. It is placed in a perfect vacuum. It is gently inflated with an ideal ...
