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justinbaker
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Studying for finals and this is one of the reveiw questions our teacher wanted us to take a look at. A little help please, i got started somewhat as you will see below
"Suppose that we have a lot of noninteracting atoms (a gas) in an external magnetic field. You may take as given the fact that each atom can be in one of two states, whose energies differ by an amount ΔE = 2µB, depending on the strength of the magnetization is taken to be +1 if it's in the lower energy state or -1 if it's in the higher state
a.) Find the average magnetization of hte entire sample as a function of the applied magnetic field B [Remark: Your answer can be expressed in terms of ΔE by using a hyperbolic trigonmetric function; if you know these, then write it this way.]
b.)Discuss how your solution behaves when B--> ∞ and when B--> 0, and why your results make sense."A.) so i am a little confused but this is what i have so far
E1=+µB
E2=-µB
and Probability1=e^(-E1/(KT))
Probability2=e^(-E2/(KT))
also P1 + P2= 1
so is there numbers that i need to plug into find the answer? B.) figure this out when i solve A
"Suppose that we have a lot of noninteracting atoms (a gas) in an external magnetic field. You may take as given the fact that each atom can be in one of two states, whose energies differ by an amount ΔE = 2µB, depending on the strength of the magnetization is taken to be +1 if it's in the lower energy state or -1 if it's in the higher state
a.) Find the average magnetization of hte entire sample as a function of the applied magnetic field B [Remark: Your answer can be expressed in terms of ΔE by using a hyperbolic trigonmetric function; if you know these, then write it this way.]
b.)Discuss how your solution behaves when B--> ∞ and when B--> 0, and why your results make sense."A.) so i am a little confused but this is what i have so far
E1=+µB
E2=-µB
and Probability1=e^(-E1/(KT))
Probability2=e^(-E2/(KT))
also P1 + P2= 1
so is there numbers that i need to plug into find the answer? B.) figure this out when i solve A
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