Question

Explain what is physically meant by “Degrees of Freedom” and the “Equipartition Theorem”.

a. Degrees of freedom refers to the number of rights, or freedoms, a person exercises in a given partition of time, after their yearly schedules have been equally partitioned into appropriate chunks of time.

b. The Equipartition theorem states that every atom in a solid has a specific heat equal to k_B/2 for every degree of freedom (or allowed kind of motion).

c. The Equipartition theorem states that every solid has a latent heat of transformation equal to 3k_BN_A, where NA is the number of degrees of freedom (or allowed kinds of motion) in the system.

d. The Equipartition theorem states that each atom has k_B/2 allowed kinds of motion (called degrees of freedom).

e. The Equipartition gives the relationship between the specific heat of a solid and the degrees of freedom for the atoms in that solid, where degrees of freedom refers to the range of angles from a defined axis an atom can move (since atoms are bound near fixed positions in a solid).

Answer 1

(a)-Degrees of freedom refers to the number of rights, or freedoms, a person exercises in a given partition of time, after their yearly schedules have been equally partitioned into appropriate chunks of time.

Bacause In physics , the degree of freedom of mechanical system is the number of independent parameters that define its configuration or state. the number of degrees of freedom is equal to the total number of independent displacement or aspects of motion.

The equipartition theorem states that energy is shared equally amongst all energetically accessible degrees of freedom of a system.