Chapter 17, Problem 17.38E

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The validation of the statement that at the limit of $S$ as $T\to 0$ the expression for entropy is $k\ln g_0$ is to be stated.

Concept introduction:

Statistical thermodynamics is used to describe all possible configurations in a system at given physical quantities such as pressure, temperature and number of particles in the system. An important quantity in thermodynamics is the partition function that is represented as,

$q\equiv {\displaystyle \sum _i{g}_i{e}^{-\beta {\in }_i}}$

It is also called as canonical ensemble partition function.