PHYS208 - Lecture Wednesday 27.

January 2010
Topics: Thermal properties of crystals '

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Equal Opportunity Game

We get 20 thousand 1 KR coins (only NOK 20 000 in the game) and collect a group of thousand people who want to play. Each person gets twenty coins. Now the game starts. It has very simple rules: the players meet person to person, each pair puts all their money together and divide them in any equal opportunity way, for example by using dice, playing cards, small games, or just any guessing-game. Anything goes, as far as it does not favour the stronger, the weaker, the more beautiful or those with social problems: simply equal opportunity, indeed just. The only thing which is not recommended is to agree that "just" is fifty-fifty then nobody can gain in the game. So as we start, John and Jane each have 20, they draw cards, Jane leaves with 35 and John now has only five. Jane engages Peter in the game, he already had 30, she 35, they used dice and their calculators on their cellphones, and now Jane has only 5, Peter leaves with 60. Leave Jane, she has too little, follow Peter. He meets Joan, she had 17, Peter had 60, they used again dice and calculators, but now Peter leaves with nothing, Joan has now 77 coins. Let us follow the poor Peter: he meets Mary who still had 22, they use cards, and now by chance, Peter leaves with 11 and Mary also keeps eleven coins. After 5 hours or just 20 minutes the game ends and everybody can now keep the coins they have left or they won. The question is: what will be the wealth distribution in this equal opportunity game? At the start, there were thousand people in the property group 20 to 24, all had twenty. Many people answered that since the chances to win and loose are the same, the distribution of the coins should look something like

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY GAME

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Coupled oscillators (many balls on many strings):

There are many solutions: Characterized by Eigenmodes <->

and

DISPERSION RELATIONS ? ?

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Here we will show how the solutions can be connected to eigenmodes

For finite systems, there are only standing waves as eigenmodes

Therefore we take the system as consisting of periodically repeated groups of N atoms One such segment has length L=a.N And the waves should be the same in all the repeated segments The calculation shows this
The region of k-values reciprocal space Balls in physical space, wavenumbers in the PHYS208 reciprocal space

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Comment

The region of k-values reciprocal space Balls in physical space, wavenumbers in the reciprocal space
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Density of modes Density of type of motion In 1 dimension

In 3 dimensions

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