Purdue PHYS 342 L9.3: Statistical Laws of Nature: Boltzmann Factor and Quantized Energy States

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00:09 Lecture 9.3: Boltzmann Factor and Quantized Energy States
01:59 Two central themes of this lecture
05:01 We will discuss the following three questions
06:11 The Maxwell-Boltzmann Factor*
09:37 ALL Possible States for a Fixed Energy of Etot=5ε
12:13 How many microstates for each macrostate (let Etot=5ε)?
15:32 Probability that a particle will have a certain energy?
19:19 Probability of finding a particle in a given energy state
21:01 Probability Distribution
22:51 Why an exponential is a good guess?
23:51 Generalizing
25:04 from the Boltzmann Factor to the Boltzmann Equation
26:37 Example
31:28 Up Next

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Purdue PHYS 342 provides an introduction to the physical principles underlying topics in Modern Physics. This course is intended to provide engineering undergraduate students with a firm base from which they can extend their understanding of the quantum world.