A balloon has 5.0 mole of helium at 7°C. Calculate (a) the number of atoms of helium in the balloon. (b) the total internal energy of…
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Important point: The above degrees of freedom are shown at room temperature. Further at high temperature, in case of diatomic or polyatomic molecules, the atoms with in the molecule may also vibrate with respect to each other. In such cases, the molecule will have an additional degrees of freedom, due to vibrational motion.
An object which vibrates in one dimension has two additional degrees of freedom. One for the potential energy and one for the kinetic energy of vibration. Helium is a mono atomic gas and It has only 3 degrees of freedom. But after addition its degree of freedom will be 5.