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Snap(medicine)

energy, equipartition of (sh) and snap-on (oh)


energy, equipartition of (sh)




Law of statistical mechanics stating that, in a system in thermal equilibrium, on average, an equal amount of energy is associated with each independent energy state.

It states specifically that a system of particles in equilibrium at absolute temperature T will have an average energy of 12kT, where k is the Boltzmann constant, associated with each degree of freedom. For example, an atom of a gas has three degrees of freedom (its three position coordinates); therefore, it will have an average total energy of 32kT.


snap-on (oh)



adj [only before noun]
a snap-on part of something can be fastened on and removed easily