Chapter 2: Q. 2.10 (page 60)

Use a computer to produce a table and graph, like those in this section, for the case where one Einstein solid contains $200$ oscillators, the other contains $100$ oscillators, and there are $100$ units of energy in total. What is the most probable macrostate, and what is its probability? What is the least probable macrostate, and what is its probability?

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The most likely macrostate is when $67$ energy units out of the total energy units are in solid $A, q_{A} = 67$ and $q_{B} = 33$ , with a probability of $0.07315$ ; the least likely macrostate is when all energy units are in partition ${Bq}_{A} = 0$ or when $q_{B} = 100$ , with a probability of $2.6926 \times 10^{- 37}$ .

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Calculation for overall multiplicity

Probability is,

P (q_{A}) = \frac{Ω_{A} Ω_{B}}{Ω_{overall}}

Over all multiplicity is,

$Ω_{overall} (N_{overall}, q_{overall}) = (\begin{matrix} q_{overall} + N_{overall} - 1 \\ q_{overall} \end{matrix})$

$= \frac{(q_{overall} + N_{overall} - 1)!}{q_{overall}! (N_{overall} - 1)!}$

Where,

$q_{overall} = q_{A} + q_{B} = 100$

$N_{overall} = N_{A} + N_{B} = 300$

Then,

$Ω_{overall} = (\begin{matrix} 100 + 300 - 1 \\ 100 \end{matrix})$

$= \frac{(100 + 300 - 1)!}{100! (300 - 1)!}$

$= 1.681 \times 10^{96}$

Calculation for total multiplicity and probability

Total multiplicity is,

$Ω_{total} = Ω_{A} Ω_{B}$

$N_{A} = 200$

$Ω_{A} = (\begin{matrix} q_{A} + 199 \\ q_{A} \end{matrix})$

$= \frac{(q_{A} + 199)!}{q_{A}! (199!)}$

$Ω_{B} = (\begin{matrix} q_{B} + N_{B} - 1 \\ q_{B} \end{matrix})$

For $N_{B} = 100$ , $q_{B} = 100 - q_{A}$

$Ω_{B} = (\begin{matrix} 100 - q_{A} + 100 - 1 \\ 100 - q_{A} \end{matrix})$

$= \frac{(199 - q_{A})!}{(100 - q_{A})! (99)!}$

probability is,

$P (q_{A}) = \frac{Ω_{A} Ω_{B}}{Ω_{overall}}$

$= \frac{1}{1.681 \times 10^{96}} \frac{(q_{A} + 199)!}{q_{A}! (199!)} \frac{(199 - q_{A})!}{(100 - q_{A})! (99)!}$

$P (q_{A}) = \frac{1}{1.681 \times 10^{96}} \frac{(q_{A} + 199)!}{q_{A}! (199!)} \frac{(199 - q_{A})!}{(100 - q_{A})! (99)!}$

Python program for creation of graph

Graph for probability versus energy

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