Hydrogen H2
molecules are kept at 300.0K
in a
cubical container with a side length of 20.0cm.
Assume that you can treat the molecules as though they were moving in a one-dimensional box. (a) Find the ground state energy of the hydrogen molecule in the container. (b) Assume that the molecule has a thermal energy given by kBT/2
and find the corresponding quantum number n
of
the quantum state that would correspond to this thermal energy.