Problem 3.7 (Schroeder’s Intro to Thermal Physics)

Problem 3.7

Use the result of Problem 2.42 to calculate the temperature of a black hole, in terms of its mass (The energy is .) Evaluate the resulting expression for a one-solar-mass black hole. Also sketch the entropy as a function of energy, and discuss the implications of the shape of the graph.

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