using System; using L=Science.Physics.GeneralPhysics; namespace Serway.Chapter21 { /// /// Example04: Thermal Excitation of Atomic Energy Levels /// As we discussed in Section 21.4, atoms can occupy only /// certain discrete energy levels. Consider a gas at a /// temperature of 2500 K whose atoms can occupy only two /// energy levels seperated by 1.5 eV, where 1 eV is an /// energy unit equal to 1.6 \times 10^{-19} J. Determine the /// ratio of the number of atoms in the higher energy /// level to the number in the lower energy level. /// n(E_2)/n(E_1) = 9.64 \times 10^{-4} /// public class Example04 { public Example04() { } private string result; public string Result { get{return result;} } public void Compute() { L.Temperature T = new L.Temperature(); T.K = 2500.0; L.Energy Ei = new L.Energy(); Ei.J = 0.0; L.Energy Ef = new L.Energy(); Ef.J = 1.5*1.6E-19; double ratio = L.FundamentalLaw.BoltzmannDistribution(Ef,T) /L.FundamentalLaw.BoltzmannDistribution(Ei,T); result+=Convert.ToString(ratio)+"\r\n"; } } } //0.000955529398162239