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Homework Statement
There are 5 Bosonic particles N = 5 populating 2 degenerate energy levels E1 and E2 such that:
E1 < E2, N2 ≤ N1
and the respective statistical weights are
g1 = 3 and g2 = 2.
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What are the possible macrostates of this system?
The Attempt at a Solution
I'm not sure if the answer is: for E1 either 5 or 4 or 3 macrostates (as N1>N2)and for E2 either 2 or 1 macrostates.
or
13 macrostates:
E1 , g = 3
E1 N1 = 5 --> (5,0,0) (410) (320) (311)
E1 N1 = 4 --> (400) (310) (220)
E1 N1 = 3 --> (300) (210) (111)
E2 , g = 2
E2 N2 = 2 --> (2,0) (1,1)
E2 N2 = 1 --> (1,0)
so 13 macrostates overall.
Any idea which is correct or are they both wrong!
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