Chapter 17, Problem 17.33E

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The equation 17.42 is to be derived using equation 17.41 by following the steps outlined in the text.

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 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.