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 \(E_j\) ,

\(p(E_j)=\cfrac{(\eta E_j)^{j/2}e^{-\sqrt{\eta E_j}}}{j!}\)?

we can rewrite,

\(p(E_j)=e^{\large{jln\left\{\sqrt{\eta E_j}\right\}-\sqrt{\eta E_j}}}.\cfrac{1}{\Gamma(j+1)}\)

But where's \(T\), the temperature of the system?

\(T\) is in \(E_j\).  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 \(T\propto E\)?