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Somehow you have a two-dimensional solid, a sheet of atoms in a square lattice, each atom linked to its four closest neighbors by four springs oriented along the two perpendicular axes. (a) What would you expect the molar heat capacity to be at very low temperatures and at very high temperatures? (b) What quantity would determine, roughly, the line between low and high?

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  1. The molar heat capacity at high temperature Cv=8R and 0 at low temperature.
  2. The quantity that is used to determine the difference between a "high" or "low" temperature is the Debye temperature of the material

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Molarity and Molar heat capacity

Molarity of solution is,

….. (1)

Here, is the number of the degrees of freedom (on which its energy depends quadratically),R is the gas constant, andT is the temperature.

Umol=n2RT

The equation for the molar heat capacityCv is also needed:

Cv=∂U∂T

This represents that it's equal to the partial derivative of the energyU with respect to temperature T.

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The molar heat capacity at very low and very high temperatures

For high temperatures, apply equation (2) to equation (1) to find the molar heat capacity:

Cv=∂U∂T=∂∂Tn2RT=n2R

To as certain that value, identify the number of degrees of freedom for the 2-D material.

Since it has velocity in two dimensions, it gives two degrees of freedom (since the kinetic energy depends on velocity squared).

However, there is also energy from the springs in each dimension (since the potential energy goes as distance squared), which gives another two degrees of freedom. So there's a total of 4 degrees of freedom, which is inserted in for in the previous equation:

Cv=n2R=42R=8R

So at high temperatures, it would be expected that the molar heat capacity for the 2-D solid would be:

Cv=8R

For low temperatures, it would be expected that the molar heat capacity would be approximately 0 because the degrees of freedom that were available at high temperatures are effectively unavailable to store energy; the atoms need some freedom of movement to be able to use the previously mentioned degrees of freedom, the would be 0, and thus the Cv would be approximately 0.

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The quantity that is used to determine the difference between a "high" or "low" temperature.

The quantity that is used to determine the difference between a "high" or "low" temperature is the Debye temperature of the material.

If the temperature of the material is approximately the same as its Debye temperature, the temperature is considered "high".

If the temperature is less than roughly of the Debye temperature, it's considered "cold". The temperature between those two cut-offs gives a steadily increase in heat capacity.

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