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Ethane vs. ethene heat capacity?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 11:34 pm
by Chem_Mod
Question: How do we know that ethane has a higher heat capacity than ethene?
Re: Ethane vs. ethene heat capacity?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 11:35 pm
by Chem_Mod
Answer: From the equipartition theorem, ethane has more degrees of freedom than ethene and therefore will have a higher heat capacity.
Re: Ethane vs. ethene heat capacity?
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 8:40 pm
by Imani Johnson 1H
What are the degrees of freedom as it relates to ethane and ethene ? How is this calculated?
Re: Ethane vs. ethene heat capacity?
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 4:33 pm
by Leah Thomas 2E
Is the degrees of freedom related to how many single and double bonds there are in the molecule?