UVa Physics Qualifier Problem Bank: Statistical Mechanics

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1 Bucky Ball 2 Heat Engine from Hell 3 Given S and work done during Iso_T expansion, f 4 Grand canonical partition function 5 Ferromagnet 6 BEC critical temp 7 Landau quantization 8 Stirling cylce 9 Spin 1/2 particles in magnetic field 10 Ideal Gas of massless Bosons 11 Phase equilibrium -> Clausius-Clapeyron 12 Adiabatic expansion, Carnot cycle 13 Ensemble of spins in B-field 14 P-V curve 15 Compression of Ideal Gas 16 Heat Capacity of Ideal Gas 17 Blackbody radiation 18 Gas leaking through a small hole 19 Neutron star 20 Free energies for mass on elastic 21 Centrifuge 22 Ionized gas 23 Entropy of mixing 24 Joule-Thompson effect 25 Changes in entropy & internal energy durring co 26 Equipartition 27 Max work from cooling 28 Two connected systems 29 relation between Cp and Cv 30 same as final exam '04 problem #2 Entropy Games 31 Two gases separated by movable partition 32 Joule-Kelvin(Thompson) coeff. from maxwells rel 33 Adiabatic expansion, Isothermal compression 34 Gibbs free energy and entropy of monatomic gas 35 Find enthalpy from eqn of state and heat capaci 36 Expansion of saturated vapor 37 System of N, two-state particles and neg. temp. 38 Internal energy ingnorance 39 Partition function and distribution function 40 Adiabatic and Isothermal nonsense 41 Crazy heat engine 42 Two gases in separate containers are connected