The ideal gas : Introductory video
Before watching the video read the questions below. As you watch the video try to answer them
Questions
- Explain how an ideal gas differs from a lattice gas
- How do the particles that make up an ideal gas interact.
- Give an expression for the Hamiltonian for a system of $N$ ideal gas atoms
- Describe the set of microstates than an ideal gas can occupy
- Give an expression for the partition function of a single gas atom and explain how you arrived at this expression
- Explain why Plancks constant appears in the expression for the partition function for an ideal gas
- Explain Gibbs paradox and how this problem is resolved in practise
- Explain how the well-known equation of state for the ideal gas is derived by taking suitable derivatives of the partition function
- Explain how an ideal gas differs from a lattice gas
- How do the particles that make up an ideal gas interact.
- Give an expression for the Hamiltonian for a system of $N$ ideal gas atoms
- Describe the set of microstates than an ideal gas can occupy
- Give an expression for the partition function of a single gas atom and explain how you arrived at this expression
- Explain why Plancks constant appears in the expression for the partition function for an ideal gas
- Explain Gibbs paradox and how this problem is resolved in practise
- Explain how the well-known equation of state for the ideal gas is derived by taking suitable derivatives of the partition function