Chapter 13, Problem 13D.1DQ

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The need of concept of canonical ensemble 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 a number of particles in the system.  The important quantity in the thermodynamic is partition function that is represented as,

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

A canonical ensemble is a hypothetical collection of systems at a common temperature.