Chapter 13, Problem 13A.1DQ

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The relationship between population, configuration, and weight has to be discussed.  The significance of the most probable configuration has to be stated.

Concept introduction:

Statistical thermodynamics is used to describe all the possible configurations in a system at given physical quantities such as pressure, temperature, and number of particles in the system. The important quantity in the thermodynamic is partition function that is represented as,

  $q\equiv {\displaystyle \sum _i{g}_i{e}^{-\beta {\in }_i}}$

It is also called canonical ensemble partition function.