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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Out Of Sight, Still In Mind

Is there an approximation to the expression for the probability of a particle being in energy partition Ej ,

p(Ej)=(ηEj)j/2eηEjj!?

we can rewrite,

p(Ej)=ejln{ηEj}ηEj.1Γ(j+1)

But where's T, the temperature of the system?

T is in Ej.  In this equation there is only one expression for energy.  The energy of a particle is not divided into E and T, where T is part of E.

Is this still useful?

T is often fixed at 298.15 K in calculations involving Boltzmann or Fermi-Dirac Distributions.

How does E related to T as we measure it?  Is TE?