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Determine the number of particle-wall collisions per unit area for an ideal quantum gas composed of N independent particles inside a cubic container of volume V. Treat the general case with a single particle energy ε=ε(p), i.e. only dependent on the absolute value of the momentum. Also, determine the pressure and discuss the corresponding classical limit. Finally, discuss the case of a photon gas with a single particle energy
and a chemical potential μ=0.
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Cini, M., Fucito, F., Sbragaglia, M. (2012). Kinetic Physics. In: Solved Problems in Quantum and Statistical Mechanics. UNITEXT(). Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2315-4_9
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