Recent content by corr0105

I'm sorry, you are correct. The post has been edited. It was a typo, but the answer I got still stands.

I guess I'm not sure how exactly that works, but that would just make the heat capacity 0, which wouldn't necessarily answer the question. Plus, volume is not a function of temperature, so that rule would not apply here... I don't believe.

The question states: A system has energy levels uniformly spaced at 3.2x10^-10 J apart. Thepopulations of the energy levels are given by the Boltzmann distribution. What fraction of particles is in the ground state at T=300K. I know that the Boltzmann distribution is: _{}p*j=probability...

The question states: For an ideal gas ∂U/∂V=0. Show that this implies the heat capacity _{}CV of an ideal gas is independent of volume. I can't wrap my mind around how I could answer this question besides just stating the obvious. The expression for heat capacity is: _{}CV=∂U/∂T (with v...

Thanks so much, I looked up how to use Legendre transforms for this type of problem and eventually figured it out (not to mention learned something!). Thanks for your help!

One mole of a van der Waals gas is compressed quasi-satically and isothermally from volume V1 to V2. For a van der Waals gas, the pressure is: p= RT/(V-b)-a/V^2 where a and b are material constants, V is the volume and RT is the gas constant x temperature. For the first part of the...

Thermodynamics! Finding a fundamental equation. This is the question: "While he Gibbs free energy G is the fundamental function of the atral variables (T,p,N), (T=temperature, p=pressure, N=number of molecules), growing biological cells often regulte not the numbers of molecules N, but the...