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4. (30) Consider a system with \( N=3300 \) particles and \( U=4510 \). There are 3 energy levels \( \varepsilon_{1}=1, \varepsilon_{2}=2 \), and \( \varepsilon_{3}=3 \). The degeneracy is the same for all levels, and \( g_{i} \gg N \). a) Determine the most probable macrostate \( \mathrm{N}_{1, \text { mp }}, \mathrm{N}_{2} \), mp, \( \mathrm{N}_{3, \text { mp }} \). b) Show that macrostates with \( \mathrm{N}_{1}=\mathrm{N}_{1, \mathrm{mp}}+1 \) and \( \mathrm{N}_{1}=\mathrm{N}_{1, \mathrm{mp}}-1 \) are less probable than the most probable macrostate you rounded to in part (a) by showing \( \ln (\mathrm{W}) \) for those macrostates is less than \( \ln \left(W_{m p}\right) \). Recall from Boltzmann that \( \ln (W)=\ln \left[\left(\Pi\left(g_{i}{ }^{N} / N i !\right)\right]\right. \). In this case, \( \Pi_{\mathrm{i}}{ }^{N i}=g^{N} \) since \( g_{i} \) are all same.

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2.(15) Calculate \( \mu, \lambda \), and \( \operatorname{Pr} \) for \( \mathrm{CO}_{2} \) at \( 27 \mathrm{C} \) and \( 1 \mathrm{~atm} \). Use \( \sigma=3.34 \mathrm{E}-8 \mathrm{~cm}, \alpha=1.06 \), and \( \beta / \alpha=1.94 \) for a non-monatomic molecule. \( \mathrm{C}_{\mathrm{v}} \approx 3 \mathrm{R} \). Compare to tabulated values.

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1.(35) Consider a speed distribution of the form \[ F\left(C^{*}\right)=a\left(C^{*}\right)^{4} \exp \left(-b C^{*}\right) \] where \( \mathrm{C}^{*}=\mathrm{C} / \mathrm{C}_{\mathrm{mp}} \), and \( \mathrm{a} \) and \( \mathrm{b} \) are constants. Let \( \mathrm{C}_{\mathrm{mp}}=(2 \mathrm{kT} / \mathrm{m})^{1 / 2} \). a) What are \( a \) and \( b \) so that the properties of a distribution function are satisfied? b) What is \( \bar{C} / \mathrm{C}_{\mathrm{mp}} \) ? Leave in terms of \( \mathrm{a} \) and \( \mathrm{b} \) if you aren't confident in your part a results. c) What is \( \mathrm{C}_{\mathrm{ms}} / \mathrm{C}_{\mathrm{mp}} \) ? Leave in terms of \( \mathrm{a} \) and \( \mathrm{b} \) if you aren't confident in your part a results. d) If \( \mathrm{C}_{\mathrm{ms}} / \mathrm{C}_{\mathrm{mp}}=\sqrt{2} \), is the ideal gas law satisfied by this distribution? e) Plot this and Maxwell's distribution on same plot. Use \( a=72 / \sqrt{\pi} \) and \( b=a / 10 \) if you aren't confident in your part a results.

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3.(20) For 4 particles and a system energy of 4, find the most probable microstate(s) using FD, \( \mathrm{BE} \), and Boltzmann statistics. \begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline\( \varepsilon_{j} \) & \( g_{j} \) \\ \hline 3 & 10 \\ \hline 2 & 10 \\ \hline 1 & 10 \\ \hline 0 & 10 \\ \hline \end{tabular}

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