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This document contains the answers to various problems from the textbook "An introduction to thermal physics" by Schroeder. It lists answers to over 50 problems, providing numerical values, equations, brief explanations or references to tables in some cases. The document was created by Staffan Grundberg from the Physics Department at Umeå University in Sweden on November 12, 2003.

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Schroeder Answers Ch1 4

This document contains the answers to various problems from the textbook "An introduction to thermal physics" by Schroeder. It lists answers to over 50 problems, providing numerical values, equations, brief explanations or references to tables in some cases. The document was created by Staffan Grundberg from the Physics Department at Umeå University in Sweden on November 12, 2003.

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Ume University

Physics Department
Staffan Grundberg

11/12/2003

Answers to problems in Schroeder: An introduction to thermal physics


1.12:
1.14:
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1.16:

1.17:

1.18:
1.19:
1.20:
1.22:
1.23:
1.24:
1.28:
1.32:
1.36:
1.37:
1.40:
1.41:
1.42:
1.43:

41 nm3
29.0 g
1600 kg
a) dp / dz = g d) See table below
Mountain
Height (m)
Ogden
1430
Leadville
3090
Mt. Whitney 4420
Mt. Everest
8850
a) See table below
T (K)
100
200
300
400
500
600

B (cm3 /mol)
-160
-35
-4.2
9.0
16.9
21.3

Pressure (atm)
0.85
0.70
0.60
0.36

Bp/(RT)
1.9 10 2
2.1 10 3
1.7 10 4
2.7 10 4
4 .1 10 4
4.3 10 4

c) B(T ) = b a /( RT ), C (T ) = b 2
d) a = 0.18 Jm 3 /(mol), b = 6 10 5 m 3 /mol
517 m/s
The average speed of a hydrogen molecule is greater than the average speed of a
oxygen molecule by a factor of 4.
U238: 145.8 m/s, U235: 146.4 m/s
d) 6.7 s e) 5 10 9 m 2
He: 150 J, air: 250 J
36 J
110 s
100 J
a) 0.25 liter b) 188 J c) 520 K
1000 K
b) 9.8 K/km
a) 4186 J b) 4186 J c) 55 J/K d) 0.55 J/g/K
93.3 C
18 degrees of freedom per molecule

1.47:
1.48:
1.49:
1.50:
1.60
1.61

46 g
14 weeks
Of the total of 286 kJ of heat produced, about 4 kJ comes from the work done by
the atmosphere.
a) 74.81 kJ c) 802.34 kJ d) 802 kJ e) 885.40 kJ f) 1600 years
approximately two and a half minutes
0.05 W/m2 ; total rate of heat conduction: 2.6 1013 W

1.63
1.64

0.15 Pa
0.4 W/(m K)

2.4
2.6
2.8

1.54 10 6
5.91 1016
a) 21 b) 6.9 1010 c) 1.45 10 4 d) 0.124

2.16
2.17

a) 0.025 b) P( 600) = 4.6 10 11


( eN / q) q

2.19

( eN / N ) N

2.23

a) = 2 N

2.24

a) max = 2 N

2
N

2.33

2
2 2 x2 / N
b) = 2 N
e
c) 2 N
N
N
1 AN N
( N , U , A) =
(2 mU ) N
2N
N! h
N!
S=156k
Most likely microstate: S/k=264.4. Least likely microstate: S/k=187.5. Long
timescales: S/k=267.0
A 2mU
S / k = N ln
+ 2
2
N Nh
155 J/K

2.35

0.01K

2.39

573 J/K

2.42

S = 1.5 10 54 J/K

3.10
3.11

a) S = 36.6 J/K b) 11.0 J/K c) 44.1 J/K d) 3.5 J/K


S total = 750 J/K

3.12

S net = 6 10 4 J/K

3.13
3.16
3.20

a) 3 10 7 J/K b) 10 4 J/K
a) 8.2 10 14 J/K b) 2.5 10 11 J
U / NB = 0.558, M / N = 0.558, S / S max = 0.76

2.26
2.28
2.29
2.32

3.21
3.28

20 m
0.81 J/K

3.29

3.30

7.59 J/K

3.31

12.33 J/K

3.32

a) 2 J c) 2 J d) 3 mJ/K

4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4

a) 12 % b) 83 %
a) 62.1 % b) $30,000,000
a) 1.5 GW b) 3.6 C c) 600 kg/s
a) 0.061 b) 8.6 10 5 kg

4.9
4.10
4.11

COP = 19.5 %
COP = 5.9
COP = 0.01

4.22
4.23
4.24

0.33
0.477
a) 0.46 b) 0.45 c) 0.49

4.26

617 kg

4.29

53 % of the fluid remains a liquid

4.31

COP=3.6

4.32

COP=5.7

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