Consider a one-component gas of non-interacting classical structureless particles of mass m at a temperatureT.
(a) Calculate exactly the grand canonical partition function, for this system as a function of volume,V, temperature, and chemical potential, μ. Your result should look like
Where z is a function ofT and μ.
(b) From the result of part (a) determine the pressure, p, as a function ofTand the average particle density,p.
(c) For 1 cc of gas at STP, compute the relative root mean square of the density fluctuations, [(δp)2] /p2] ½.
(d) Calculate the probability of observing a spontaneous fluctuation in 1cc of gas at STP for which the instan-taneous density differs from the mean by one part in 106.
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