Free energy of a classical harmonic oscillator?

OK, let’s suppose I have a system of N noninteracting classical harmonic oscillators with spring constant k at a temperature of T. What would be the Helmholtz free energy of this system?

A = NkT ln (hw / kT)

Duh!

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  1. Joel 11. Mar, 2010 at 6:00 am #

    A = NkT ln (hw / kT)

    Duh!
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