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Determination of Boltzmann constant by equipartition theorem for capacitors

Physics Education 2019-04-22 v3

Abstract

A new experimental set-up for Boltzmann constant measurement is described. Statistically averaged square of voltage <U2>\left<U^2\right> is measured for different capacitances CC. Boltzmann constant is determined by the equipartition theorem C<U2>=kBTC\left<U^2\right>=k_{_\mathrm{B}}T. For fixed capacitance, voltages could be measured for different temperatures. The set-up consists of low-noise high frequency operational amplifiers ADA4898-2. An instrumental amplifier is followed by an inverting amplifier, square of the voltage is created by an analog multiplier AD633 and finally the averaged signal is measured by a multimeter.

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@article{arxiv.1707.04482,
  title  = {Determination of Boltzmann constant by equipartition theorem for capacitors},
  author = {T. M. Mishonov and V. N. Gourev and I. M. Dimitrova and N. S. Serafimov and A. A. Stefanov and E. G. Petkov and A. M. Varonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04482},
  year   = {2019}
}

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14 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, 2 appendices