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The temperature of a cavity of fixed volume is doubled. Which of the following is true for the black-body radiation inside the cavity?

A. Its energy and the number of photons both increase 8 times

B. Its energy increases 8 times and the number of photons increase 16 times

C. Its energy increases 16 times and the number of photons increase 8 times

D. Its energy and the number of photons both increase 16 times

Answer: Option C


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A system has two energy levels with energies E and 2E. The lower level is four-fold degenerate while the upper level is doubly degenerate. If there are N non-interacting classical particles in the system, which is in thermodynamic equilibrium at temperature T, the fraction of particles in the upper level is

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