Timeline for Degrees of freedom in a molecule of $N$ atoms
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| Dec 20, 2023 at 12:54 | comment | added | Albertus Magnus | @Hanson. Oh, I know. Apologies offered. My language was imprecise, and at the end of the day it is not so much what one means as what one says. | |
| Dec 20, 2023 at 2:53 | comment | added | Matt Hanson | Yes, but I didn’t misattribute the types of coordinates to the atoms themselves. It’s just an important, though technical, distinction. | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 23:11 | comment | added | Albertus Magnus | @Hanson. In your own post you talk about the freedom, of the atoms that make up a molecule, to move. I don't think my answer goes too far off the deep end. | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 20:02 | comment | added | Matt Hanson | This answer is very confusing. An atom does not have vibrational degrees of freedom, a molecule does. You can partition the coordinates into localized internal degrees of freedom like stretches, bends, etc. but this still is certainly not a motion of a single atom. | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 19:54 | history | answered | Albertus Magnus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |