Thermodynamic potentials — UPSC Physics Optional CSE 2025 Paper I

Consider a mixture of N_A molecules of a monatomic gas A and N_B molecules of a monatomic gas B. For this mixture, obtain the Helmholtz free energy and pressure. (The particle partition function for a monatomic gas is q = \left(\frac{2\pi m k T}{h^2}\right)^{\frac{3}{2}} V).