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IN Mr. Jean's valuable work upon this subject he attacks the celebrated difficulty of reconciling the “law of equipartition of energy” with what is known respecting the specific heats of gases. Considering a gas the molecules of which radiate into empty space, he shows that in an approximately steady state the energy of vibrational modes may bear a negligible ratio to that of translational and rotational modes.
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Compare "Remarks upon the Law of Complete Radiation" (Phil Mag. xlix. p. 539, 1900).
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RAYLEIGH The Dynamical Theory of Gases. Nature 71, 559 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071559c0
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