(Challenging) Building on the concept of equipartition, demonstrate that for any energy term of the form ax...

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(Challenging) Building on the concept of equipartition, demonstrate that for any energy term of the form ax2, where α is a constant, the contribution to the internal energy is equal to 1/2 kT by evaluating the following expression:

ax²e dx 00 xx /kT dx

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Physical Chemistry

ISBN: 978-0321812001

3rd edition

Authors: Thomas Engel, Philip Reid

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