By Sidney B. Cahn, Gerald D. Mahan, Boris E. Nadgorny, Max Dresden
In order to equip hopeful graduate scholars with the data essential to move the qualifying exam, the authors have assembled and solved general and unique difficulties from significant American universities – Boston college, college of Chicago, college of Colorado at Boulder, Columbia, collage of Maryland, college of Michigan, Michigan kingdom, Michigan Tech, MIT, Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford, Stony Brook, college of Tennessee at Knoxville, and the college of Wisconsin at Madison – and Moscow Institute of Physics and know-how. a variety of fabric is roofed and comparisons are made among related difficulties of other faculties to supply the coed with adequate info to consider cozy and assured on the examination. Guide to Physics Problems is released in volumes: this publication, Part 2, covers Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics; Part 1, covers Mechanics, Relativity and Electrodynamics.
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From volume to a) Find the work done on the gas and the heat absorbed by the gas. TLFeBOOK 16 PROBLEMS b) The gas now expands adiabatically to volume What is the final temperature (derive this result from first principles)? c) Estimate for K for air. 26 Isochoric Cooling and Isobaric Expansion (Moscow Phys-Tech) An ideal gas of total mass and molecular weight is isochorically (at constant volume) cooled to a pressure times smaller than the initial pressure The gas is then expanded at constant pressure so that in the final state the temperature coincides with the initial temperature Calculate the work done by the gas.
35 Poisson Distribution in Ideal Gas (Colorado) Consider a monatomic ideal gas of total molecules in a volume Show that the probability, for the number N of molecules contained in a small element of V is given by the Poisson distribution TLFeBOOK PROBLEMS 20 where V. 36 is the average number of molecules found in the volume Polarization of Ideal Gas (Moscow Phys-Tech) Calculate the electric polarization of an ideal gas, consisting of molecules having a constant electric dipole moment in a homogeneous external electric field E at temperature What is the dielectric constant of this gas at small fields?
Assume a relation between energy and momentum of the form Find a relation between D and for Bose condensation to occur. 72 How Hot the Sun? 72). To make the numerical estimate, you are encouraged to ignore all factors of 2’s and to express any integrals that you might have in dimensionless form, and to take all dimensionless quantities to be unity. 73 35 Radiation Force (Princeton, Moscow Phys-Tech, MIT) Consider an idealized Sun and Earth, both blackbodies, in otherwise empty flat space. The Sun is at a temperature and heat transfer by oceans and atmosphere on the Earth is so effective as to keep the Earth’s surface temperature uniform.
