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Thunderbird88
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Homework Statement
We have an ideal gas consisted of N classical particles, each having mass m. The system is inside a spherical bottle of radius R and is inside the gravitational field of the earth. The system is also in thermal equilibrium with a heat reservoir which has temperature T. I have to find the partition function and the energy of the system.2. The attempt at a solution
The problem I face is finding the energy of a single particle. I'm confused regarding the potential energy. My solution is in the pdf file. Is there something wrong with the spherical coordinates?