A gas made up of fermions with spin 1/2 and mass m is located inside a cubic
Question:
A gas made up of fermions with spin 1/2 and mass m is located inside a cubic container with side L0. The walls of the container can absorb gas: on every unit of surface there are σ (an unknown number of) sites, to each of which one fermion with energy -ε0 can get attached. The gas is so diluted that one can assume that μ<<ε0, where μ refers to the chemical potential of said gas. Given is also that at temperature T0=ε0/k the number of Fermions NG is equal to Ns, the number of fermions that have been absorbed into the walls of the container.
a. find the surface density of absorption sites σ.
b. said gas is moved into a cubic container made of the same material, at the same temperature, but with side-length 2L0. Calculate the relation NG/Ns
c. said gas is moved back to the original container, while lowering the temperature to T/4. Calculate the relation NG/Ns once more.
Physics for Scientists and Engineers A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics
ISBN: 978-0133942651
4th edition
Authors: Randall D. Knight