Chapter 17, Problem 17.44E

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The reason as to why the mass of a single atom is used and not the mass of a mole of atoms, for calculating thermodynamic properties for $1$ mole of a monatomic gas is to be stated.

Concept introduction:

Statistical thermodynamic 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 the thermodynamic 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.