Relating Degeneracy and Volume
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Relating Degeneracy and Volume
In the example that Dr. Lavelle gave today during lecture he said that when V2=2V1, each gas molecule has 2x positions available to it and that because of this the ratio of W2 to W1 was equal to 2. How do we know that each gas molecule has 2x positions available to it?
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Re: Relating Degeneracy and Volume
I think it may be because the volume has doubled, and in V1, the positions available consist of the entire volume of the container. V2 is double the volume of V1, meaning there is twice the volume available for gas molecules. I also think we assume that the gas is an ideal gas, so the volume occupied by the gas molecules themselves is negligible, and therefore, we don't have to account for volume taken up by other gas molecules.
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Re: Relating Degeneracy and Volume
Each gas molecule only having 2 possible positions was just for the example in lecture. For a CO molecule, the atoms can be configured as [C-O] or [O-C]. I think the number of possible positions depends on the specific problem.
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