Module 5 : Statistical Thermodynamics

Lecture 5 : Fermi-Dirac statistics

Quiz 5

  1. What is Pauli's exclusion principle?
  2. How does Fermi-Dirac statistics differ from Bose-Einstein statistics?
  3. Explain Fermi Energy.
  4. Under what condition does the density in a momentum space remain constant?
  5. Plot the density versus kinetic energy in a momentum space for Fermi-Dirac statistics.
  6. Why do the MB and FD statistics contradict each other at absolute zero temperature?