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Thank you very much for your insight. I had completely overlooked the fact that adding j to the index was actually a multiplication. I've managed to make it work out properly by taking that into consideration. Thanks again, M@

Homework Statement For a magnetic particle with an angular momentum "quantum number", j, the allowed values of the z component of a particles magnetic moment are: µ = -jδ, (-j + 1)δ, ..., (j-1)δ, jδ δ is a constant, and j is a multiple of 1/2 Show that the partition function of a...

Homework Statement Polymers are made of very long molecules, usually tangled up in a configuration that has lots of entropy. As a very crude model of a rubber band, consider a chain of N links, each of length l. Imagine that each link has only two possible states, pointing either left or...