(a) If you apply the same amount of heat to 1.00 mol of an ideal monatomic gas...

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(a) If you apply the same amount of heat to 1.00 mol of an ideal monatomic gas and 1.00 mol of an ideal diatomic gas, which one (if any) will increase more in temperature?

(b) Physically, why do diatomic gases have a greater molar heat capacity than monatomic gases?

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University Physics with Modern Physics

ISBN: 978-0133977981

14th edition

Authors: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman

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