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Past exam of the chemistry A course of the University of Cambridge 2022 Paper 2 A8 a i Solution by
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Assume a dilute classical ideal gas of indistinguishable, noninteracting particles, with translational states dense enough to replace their sum by a continuum integral. Separate translation from all internal degrees of freedom. ThenUsing Stirling's approximation in the Helmholtz free energy,Differentiate at fixed . Since ,Only after this derivative set and for one mole at standard pressure:This is the translational Sackur-Tetrode equation. The factor is essential for the correct extensive entropy; replacing by a temperature-dependent standard molar volume before taking the fixed-volume derivative would give the wrong constant term.
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