Example 6.15: Pressure of a particle in a cube Consider a particle of mass m in a

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Example 6.15: Pressure of a particle in a cube Consider a particle of mass m in a cube of volume V = L3 and calculate its pressure P on a wall.

[Hint: From the Schr¨odinger equation (6.10) the energy E of the particle is given by the eigenvalue relation (6.13) as E =

2Ï€2 2mL2

(l2 +m2 + n2). (6.111)

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Basics Of Statistical Physics

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Authors: Harald J W Muller-Kirsten

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