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what is degree of freedom?

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Degree of freedom (f) means number of independent co-ordinates required to specify a system.

In three dimensions N number of particles of a system has 3N degrees of freedom. Now if k be the number of constraints then degree of freedom gets reduced given by

f = 3N-k


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