Ideal gas Helmholtz energy function

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From equations

for the canonical ensemble partition function for an ideal gas, and

for the Helmholtz energy function, one has

using Stirling's approximation

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one arrives at

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where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Lambda} is the de Broglie thermal wavelength and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle k_B} is the Boltzmann constant.