Solution

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For independent internal rotational states, the rotational factor in the many-molecule partition function is . The indistinguishability factor has already been included in the translational part and is not applied a second time to the internal factor. Thus
A nonlinear rigid rotor has three rotational quadratic degrees of freedom; in the high-temperature limit, . Therefore
This is the rotational entropy contribution, with the appropriate rotational symmetry number already inside . It has no ideal-gas pressure dependence.

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