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The vibrational temperature is commonly used in thermodynamics, to simplify certain equations. It has units of temperature and is defined as

${\theta }_{vib}=\frac{h\nu }{k_B}$

where $k_B$ is Boltzmann's constant

The vibrational temperature is used commonly when finding the vibrational partition function.

References

Statistical thermodynamics University Arizona

See also

• Rotational temperature
• Rotational spectroscopy
• Vibrational spectroscopy
• Infrared spectroscopy
• Spectroscopy