Chakrabarti, R.; Chandrashekar, R.; Naina Mohammed, S.S. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 18, pp. 4589-4598
We obtain an analytic expression for the specific heat of a system of N rigid rotators exactly in the high temperature limit, and via a perturbative approach in the low temperature limit. We then evaluate the specific heat of a diatomic gas with both translational and rotational degrees of...