Consider a collection of 10,000 atoms of rubidium-87, confined inside a box of volume (10-5 m)3. Suppose that T = 0.9Tc. How many atoms are in the ground state? How close is the chemical potential to the ground-state energy? How many atoms are in each of the (threefold-degenerate) first excited states?

Consider a collection of 10,000 atoms of rubidium-87, confined inside a box of volume (10-5 m)3. Suppose that T = 0.9Tc. How many atoms are in the ground state? How close is the chemical potential to the ground-state energy? How many atoms are in each of the (threefold-degenerate) first excited states?

Principles of Modern Chemistry

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Chapter20: Molecular Spectroscopy And Photochemistry

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