Question

Explain 1/2KT in term of degrees of freedom.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Given a thermodynamic system at an absolute temperature T, the average thermal energy carried by each microscopic degree of freedom in the system is 12kT (i.e., about 2.07×10−21 J, or 0.013 eV, at room temperature). ... According to the equipartition of energy this means that there is a thermal energy of 32kT per atom.