- 9.1: How relevant is the Heisenberg uncertainty principlein frustrating ...
- 9.2: Why might the measured molar heat capacity of Cl2not match the pred...
- 9.3: In a diatomic gas why should it be more diffi cult toexcite the vib...
- 9.4: What is the physical signifi cance of the root-meansquarespeed in a...
- 9.5: An insulated container fi lled with an ideal gas movesthrough fi el...
- 9.6: Maxwell conceived of a device (later called Maxwellsdemon) that cou...
- 9.7: If the distribution function f(q) for some physicalproperty q is ev...
- 9.8: If a collection of particles are identical, how can theybe distingu...
- 9.9: Which of the following act as fermions and which asbosons: hydrogen...
- 9.10: Theorists tend to believe that free quarks (with charge 23e and 13e...
- 9.11: Explain why you expect E to be greater than 12EF[Equation (9.45)].
- 9.12: Why doesnt the total energy of a collection of fermionsapproach zer...
- 9.13: How would the behavior of metals be different if electronswere boso...
- 9.14: What would happen to the Planck distribution andthe behavior of liq...
- 9.15: If only the superfl uid component of liquid heliumfl ows through a ...
- 9.16: Why is BBE 1 the minimum allowed value in theintegral in Equation (...
- 9.17: Discuss similarities and differences between an atomlaser and an op...
- 9.18: One way to decide whether Maxwell-Boltzmann statisticsare valid is ...
- 9.19: Use Equation (9.24) to turn the Maxwell speed distribution,Equation...
- 9.20: Consider an atom with a magnetic moment and atotal spin 1/2. The at...
- 9.21: The Fermi energy can be defi ned as the energy atwhich the Fermi fa...
- 9.22: At T 0, what fraction of electrons have energyE E?
- 9.23: Silver has exactly one conduction electron per atom.(a) Use the den...
- 9.24: What fraction of the electrons in a good conductorhave energies bet...
- 9.25: Use the data in to compute (a) EF and (b)uF for silver.
- 9.26: The Fermi energy for gold is 5.51 eV at T 293 K.(a) Find the averag...
- 9.27: The density of pure copper is 8.92 103 kg/m3, and itsmolar mass is ...
- 9.28: Aluminum has a density of 2.70 103 kg/m3 at atemperature of 293 K, ...
- 9.29: Compute the Fermi speed for (a) Ca (EF 4.69 eV)and (b) Be (EF 14.3 ...
- 9.30: Verify that Equation (9.35) is valid in the limit T S 0.
- 9.31: Show that in general (that is, T 0) the energy distributionof N ele...
- 9.32: Use the result of with copper (EF 7.0 eV)to sketch n(E) at (a) T 0,...
- 9.33: Use numerical integration of the function given in to verify that q...
- 9.34: Use numerical integration of the function given in to fi nd the fra...
- 9.35: In a neutron star the entire stars mass has collapsedessentially to...
- 9.36: Consider a collection of fermions at T 293 K. Findthe probability t...
- 9.37: Suppose you have an ideal gas of fermions at roomtemperature (293 K...
- 9.38: Gold is a dense metal, with a density of 1.93 104 kg/m3 at T 300 K....
- 9.39: Next to helium, the lightest noble gas is neon. (a) Estimatethe tem...
- 9.40: Consider the problem of photons in a spherical cavityat temperature...
- 9.41: Use numerical integration on a computer to verify theoutput of the ...
- 9.42: Show that the wave functions in Equations (9.67) satisfythe require...
- 9.43: Assume that air is an ideal gas under a uniform gravitationalfi eld...
- 9.44: Use the law of atmospheres ( 43) to comparethe air densities at sea...
- 9.45: Consider the law of atmospheres ( 43). Firstshow that the pressure ...
- 9.46: Consider a thin-walled, fi xed-volume container ofvolume V that hol...
- 9.47: For the situation described in 46, show thatthe speed distribution ...
- 9.48: Escape speed from near Earths surface is 1.1 104m/s. (a) Find the t...
- 9.49: The escape speed of a particle near the suns surfaceis 6.2 105 m/s....
- 9.50: (a) What density of conduction electrons in copper isneeded in orde...
- 9.51: Starting with the Fermi energy given in Table 9.4, estimatethe numb...
- 9.52: Use the method described in Appendix 6 to evaluatethe integral q0 x...
- 9.53: For a (classical) simple harmonic oscillator with fi xedtotal energ...
- 9.54: Stars similar to our sun eventually become whitedwarfs, in which th...
- 9.55: An atoms nucleus is a collection of fermionsprotons and neutrons. (...
- 9.56: During World War II, physicists developed methods toseparate the ur...
- 9.57: Find the number density N/V for Bose-Einstein condensationto occur ...
- 9.58: Bose-Einstein condensates of rubidium have reachedtemperatures of 2...
- 9.59: The 40Ar isotope of argon (its most common form) isa boson, like 4H...
- 9.60: In one experiment done by Cornell and Wieman, aBose-Einstein conden...
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