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ic Rev. Confirming Pages Exp. 3 Heat-Capacity Ratios for Gases 107 The number of degrees of freedom for a molecule is the number of independent coor- dinates needed to specify its position and configuration. Hence a molecule of N atoms has 3N degrees of freedom. These could be taken as the three…