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Grade 11Thermal Physics

A polyatomic gas with n degrees of freedom has 3 mean energy per molecule given by

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12 Years agoGrade 11
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According to law of equipartition of energy, the energy per degree of freedom is kT/2

For a polyatomic gas with n degrees of freedom, the mean energy per molecule = nkT/2