written by Spencer Wheaton

A worksheet  that uses the two-state paramagnet model to investigate the fundamental ideas of Statistical and Thermal Physics.  This model considers N non-interacting magnetic dipoles, with dipole moment mu in an external magnetic field of strength B. Each dipole can point either in the direction of the magnetic field, or in the opposite direction (i.e. the dipoles are "two-state"). A dipole pointing in the direction of the magnetic field has less energy than one pointing in the opposite direction, since it requires energy to flip a dipole from being aligned with the field to being anti-aligned.

• Download No3_ParamagnetMultProbEntropy.jar - 1787kb Java Archive File

Published May 24, 2013
Last Modified June 13, 2014

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The Two-State Paramagnet student worksheet.

This file is available in multiple formats: .pdf, .docx

• Download WorksheetTwoStateParamagnet.pdf - 42kb Adobe PDF Document
• Download WorksheetTwoStateParamagnet.docx - 64kb Word Document

Last Modified August 15, 2013

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A spreadsheet for the Two-State Paramagnet exercise.

• Download WorksheetTwoStateParamagnetSpreadsheet.xlsm - 14kb application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroenabled.12

Last Modified August 15, 2013

Spreadsheet with Two-State Paramagnet data.

• Download WorksheetTwoStateParamagnetSpreadsheetComplete.xlsm - 23kb application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroenabled.12

Last Modified August 15, 2013

This source code zip archive contains an XML representation of the Two-State Paramagnet Model.   Unzip this archive in your Ejs workspace to compile and run this model using Ejs.

• Download ejs_sa_ParamagnetMultProbEntropy.zip - 6kb Compressed File

Last Modified June 13, 2014

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