Two-State Paramagnet Worksheet and Model

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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.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.6 of Java (JRE).

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Published: May 24, 2013
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3 supplemental documents are available

Two-State Paramagnet Worksheet
The Two-State Paramagnet student worksheet.
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Last Modified: August 15, 2013

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Two-State Paramagnet Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet for the Two-State Paramagnet exercise.
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Last Modified: August 15, 2013

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Two-State Paramagnet Completed Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet with Two-State Paramagnet data.
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Last Modified: August 15, 2013

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Two-State Paramagnet Source Code
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.
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Last Modified: June 13, 2014
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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Thermo & Stat Mech - Ensembles = Macrostate = Microstate - First Law = Thermal Equilibrium - Models = Einstein Model - Second and Third Law = Entropy	- Upper Undergraduate - Graduate/Professional	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation = Lesson/Lesson Plan

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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:: Spencer Wheaton
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created August 15, 2013 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:: June 13, 2014 by Andreu Glasmann
Last Update when Cataloged:: May 24, 2013
Other Collections:: The Open Source Physics

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