Although it correctly predicts the non-field-dependent Hall effect, magnetoresistance, and thermopower, it cannot predict the specific heat of a metal as well as the Sommerfeld effect, since it incorrectly assumes a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for the electrons.
Although it correctly predicts the non-field-dependent Hall effect, magnetoresistance, and thermopower, it cannot predict the specific heat of a metal as well as the Sommerfeld effect, since it incorrectly assumes a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for the electrons. Resting on the assumption that a metal is composed of a sea of independent and free electrons with immobile positive nuclei, FTP, what is this simplest model of electrical conduction?
Although it correctly predicts the non-field-dependent Hall effect, magnetoresistance, and thermopower, it cannot predict the specific heat of a metal as well as the Sommerfeld effect, since it incorrectly assumes a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for the electrons.
{Drude} model (prompt on early “Sommerfeld”)