Ideal gas Helmholtz energy function
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From equations
for the canonical ensemble partition function for an ideal gas, and
for the Helmholtz energy function, one has
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- Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle =-k_BT\left(-\ln N! + N\ln\frac{VN}{\Lambda^3N}\right)}
- Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle =-k_BT\left(-\ln N! + N\ln\frac{N}{\Lambda^3 \rho}\right)}
using Stirling's approximation
- Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle =-k_BT\left( -N\ln N +N + N\ln N - N\ln \Lambda^3 \rho \right)}
one arrives at
- Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle A=Nk_BT\left(\ln \Lambda^3 \rho -1 \right)}
where is the de Broglie thermal wavelength and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle k_B} is the Boltzmann constant.