B4.23
Part II, 2004
Derive the Bose-Einstein expression for the mean number of Bose particles occupying a particular single-particle quantum state of energy , when the chemical potential is and the temperature is in energy units.
Why is the chemical potential for a gas of photons given by ?
Show that, for black-body radiation in a cavity of volume at temperature , the mean number of photons in the angular frequency range is
Hence, show that the total energy of the radiation in the cavity is
where is a constant that need not be evaluated.
Use thermodynamic reasoning to find the entropy and pressure of the radiation and verify that
Why is this last result to be expected for a gas of photons?