A Guide to Physics Problems. Part 2. Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and Quantum Mechanics

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The averageproceeds in precisely the sameway,yielding

b) The heat capacity, at constantvolume is equal to Frompart

(a), we have

where we now sumover the 3-space andmomentumdegrees offreedom per
atom. The heatcapacity,

is the law of Dulong and Petit.

c) Now take the average:

Integration by parts yields

where the prime on the productsign in thefirst term indicates that we

integrateover all except then the firstterm in the

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