Re: How do you calculate the specific heat of an alloy?

From: Repeating Rifle (salmonegg_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:58:47 GMT

in article BE156A97.30412%salmonegg@sbcglobal.net, Repeating Rifle at
salmonegg@sbcglobal.net wrote on 1/20/05 2:02 PM:

> A reasonable estimate can be made using the law of Dulong & Petit. It is
> based upon the statistical mechanical concept that each atom contributes the
> same amount of heat capacity.

I should have indicated that Dulong & Petit discovered their "law"
empirically before statistical mechanics was well understood.

Bill