The models of specific heat based on equipartition of energy and including rotational degrees of freedom as well as translational are able to explain specific heats for diatomic molecules. The departure from this model in the case of polyatomic molecules indicates vibrational involvement
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Radiation from a Uniformly Accelerated Charge and the Equivalence Principle Stephen Parrott Department of Mathematics University of Massachusetts at Boston