The Real Work
1) The following table gives the configurations are for 9 particles in 9 states, each with 8 units of
energy (state $n_1$ has 0 energy, $n_2$ has 1 unit, $n_3$ has 2 units, etc.).
a) Without calculating anything,
which configuration do you expect
will be most probable? Why?
b) Calculate the weight for each
configuration, which is be the most
probable? Hint, copy/paste into
excel and compute probability for
all configurations.
c) How does the most probable
configuration relate to the
Boltzmann distribution?