Chapter 13, Problem 13A.4DQ

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The role of the Boltzmann distribution in chemistry has to be summarized.

Concept introduction:

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

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

It is also known as canonical ensemble partition function.