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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2021🎓 HS🔄 Round 10#️⃣ Question 20🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Consider a monatomic ideal gas in the extreme relativistic limit, at which its energy is linearly proportional to momentum, unlike the classical limit in which energy is quadratically proportional to momentum. According to the equipartition theorem, what is the average energy per particle, in terms of Boltzmann's constant k and the temperature T?

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