A gas bottle contains 5.40×1023 Hydrogen molecules at a temperature of 350 K. What is the thermal energy of the gas? (You might need to know Boltzmann's constant: kB = 1.38×10-23 J/K.)
Answer: 6.52×103 J
How much energy is stored in ONE degree of freedom for the whole system?
What is the average energy of a single molecule?
Answer: 1.21×10-20 J
On average how much energy is stored by ONE degree of freedom for ONE single molecule?
a) Thermal energy of the gas (all molecules) is
(Taking into account degrees of freedom for hydrogen molecules as diatomic gas, f = 5)
b) In one degree of freedom, energy stored is 1/5 th of above.
c) For average energy of a single molecule, divide (a) by N, we get
d) For one single molecule in one degree of freedom,
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