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The document outlines the topics and question types for a statistical mechanics exam. It covers classical statistics, classical and quantum theories of radiation, and Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics. Question types include short one mark questions, longer five mark questions, and even longer fifteen mark questions.

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Paper CC14

The document outlines the topics and question types for a statistical mechanics exam. It covers classical statistics, classical and quantum theories of radiation, and Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics. Question types include short one mark questions, longer five mark questions, and even longer fifteen mark questions.

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Department of Physics

Semester-6
Paper CC-14: Statistical Mechanics
Topic: Classical Statistics
Type-A (One Marks Question) Very Short answer type
1. What do you mean by macro and micro state?
2. What do you mean by ensemble?
3. Write Stirling’s approximation?
4. What is thermodynamic probability?
5. What are constraints on a system and accessible state?
6. What are static and dynamic systems?
Type-B (5 Marks Question) Short answer type
1. Write the statistical definition of entropy.
2. What is phase space and find the number of phase cells in the given energy
range for three dimensional free particles?
3. Give the statistical description of systems of particles.
4. What is postulate of equal a priori probability?
5. Write fundamental postulates of statistical mechanics.
6. What is partition function?
Type-C (15 Marks Question) Long Answer Type
1. What is entropy? Write statistical definition for it and derive Boltzmann’s
entropy probability relation?
2. Derive Maxwell’s Boltzmann distribution law of distribution of molecular
speeds. Find average speed, r.m.s. speed and most probable speed for the
molecules of an ideal gas.
3. What is statistical ensemble? Discuss its different types and compare all the
ensembles.
4. What is Gibbs paradox? How it is removed and find Sackur-Tetrode equation.
5. State and Prove Law of equipartition of energy.
6. What is partition function? How it is related with thermodynamic quantities?
Topic: Classical theory and Quantum theory of radiation
Type-A (One Marks Question) Very Short answer type
1. What do you mean by radiant energy?
2. What is black body radiation?
3. Write Wien’s law.
4. Write Stefan’s Law.
5. Write Rayleigh Jeans Law.
Type-B (5 Marks Question) Short answer type
1. What is emissive and absorptive power?
2. State and prove Kirchhoff’s law of black body radiation.
3. Using Planck’s radiation law, derive Wien’s law and Stefan’s law.
Type-C (15 Marks Question) Long Answer Type
1. State and prove Stefan’s Boltzmann law.
2. State and derive Wien’s displacement law.
3. State and derive Planck’s radiation law. Prove that Wien’s law and
Rayleigh Jeans law is special case of Planck’s law.

Topic: B-E and F-D Statistics


Type-A (One Marks Question) Very Short answer type
1. What do you mean by distribution law?
Type-B (5 Marks Question) Short answer type
1. Compare between M-B, F-D and B-E statistics?
2. Discuss different types of identical particles.
3. What is White Dwarf and Chandrashekhar Limit?
Type-C (15 Marks Question) Long Answer Type
1. Derive Fermi-Dirac distribution law. Show that the specific heat of a
strongly degenerate Fermi gas is directly proportional to its absolute
temperature.
2. Discuss the behaviour of free electrons in metal as Fermi gas in three
dimensions. Hence explain Fermi energy.
3. Obtain Bose-Einstein distribution law for a system of identical particles.
Use it to derive Planck’s radiation law.
4. What is Bose-Einstein condensation? Explain thermal properties of Bose
Einstein gas.

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