Practice Problems: Chapter 20
Work through Chapter 20 practice problems on high-temperature partition functions, thermodynamic quantities, and rotational energy levels for harmonic oscillators and diatomic molecules.
Prob 20.1
At high temperatures,
if this holds,
show that the partition function of a simple harmonic oscillator is approximately
.
At this point, find U, C, F, S at high temperatures.
For the high-temperature limit of the rotational energy levels of a diatomic molecule given by
, solve the same problem as well.
Originally written in Korean on my Naver blog (2016-12). Translated to English for gdpark.blog.