Ideal Gas in a Finite Container
arXiv:physics/9704006 · doi:10.1119/1.18202
Abstract
The thermodynamics of an ideal gas enclosed in a box of volume a1 x a2 x a3 at temperature T is considered. The canonical partition function of the system is expressed in terms of complete elliptic integrals of the first kind, whose argument obeys a transcendental equation. For high and low temperatures we derive explicitly the main finite-volume corrections to the standard thermodynamic quantities.
13 pages total (Latex source), including one table and one ps figure
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