Chapter 17, Problem 17.22E

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The units on $\beta$ are to be stated. The explanation for the corresponding answer is to be stated.

Concept introduction:

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

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

It is also called as canonical ensemble partition function.