Consider an ideal gas consisting of N particles (N is large) with identical mass enclosed in a two-dimensional square box of length L.
(i) Compute the number of accessible microstates φ(E) between energy 0 and E.
(ii) From φ(E), compute the number of available microstates Ω(E) between energy E and E+ΔE, where Ω(E)ΔE is the uncertainty in energy.
(iii) Use Ω(E) to calculate entropy using Boltzmann's equation.
9. Consider an ideal gas consisting of N particles (N is large) with identical mass enclosed in a two-dimensional square box of length L.
(i) Compute the number of accessible microstates (E) between energy 0 and E.
(ii) From (E), compute the number of available microstates (E) between energy E and E+E, where E<<E is the uncertainty in energy.
(iii) Use (E) to calculate entropy using Boltzmann's equation.