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Sodium Density and Electron Properties

This document provides three chemistry problems related to Fermi-Dirac statistics: 1) Calculate the Fermi energy and temperature of sodium using its density and assumption of one conduction electron per atom. 2) Show that the chemical potential of aluminum differs from its standard value by less than 0.1% at 3000K using the given equation. 3) Find the contribution of conduction electrons to heat capacity in terms of number of electrons N and Fermi temperature TF using the given ideal Fermi-Dirac gas energy equation.

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Sodium Density and Electron Properties

This document provides three chemistry problems related to Fermi-Dirac statistics: 1) Calculate the Fermi energy and temperature of sodium using its density and assumption of one conduction electron per atom. 2) Show that the chemical potential of aluminum differs from its standard value by less than 0.1% at 3000K using the given equation. 3) Find the contribution of conduction electrons to heat capacity in terms of number of electrons N and Fermi temperature TF using the given ideal Fermi-Dirac gas energy equation.

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Chem 534: Problem Set #9 (advisory only)

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(1) The density of sodium metal at room temperature is 0.95 g/cm . Assuming that there is one
conduction electron per sodium atom, calculate the Fermi energy and Fermi temperature of
sodium.

(2) Show that at 3000 K, for aluminum differs from 0 by less than 0.1% (0=11.7 eV). Note
that,
2 kT 2 4 kT 4
= 0 1 +!
12 0 80 0

(3) Given that the energy of an ideal Fermi-Dirac gas is given by


5 2 2 3 kT
E = E0 1 + +! , where E0 = N 0 and = , find the contribution of the
12 5 0
conductance electrons to the heat capacity in terms of N and the Fermi temperature TF.

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