Chapter 18, Problem 18.26E

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The minimum values for $q_{\text{nuc}}$, $q_{\text{rot}}$ and $q_{\text{vib}}$ for a gas phase molecule is to be predicted.

Concept introduction:

Statistical thermodynamics is used to describe all possible configurations in a system at given physical quantities such as pressure, temperature and number of particles in the system. An important quantity in thermodynamics is partition function that is represented as,

$q\equiv {\displaystyle \sum _i{g}_i{e}^{-\beta {\in }_i}}$

It is also called as canonical ensemble partition function.