> Hello, mems member
>
Studying acoustic phonon for thermal conductivity, I faced a problem.  I
know that the acoutic phonon is the quantized mode of vibration occuring in
the atomic lattice of a solid.  However, I don't know how the initial atomic
vibration happen by thermal energy: the first vibration of one atom.  I
think when an atom get the thermal energy by heating, the energy well is
fluctuated, and next the nuclei starts to move.  I think this is the
mechanism of the initial atomic vibration of one atom by thermal energy.  I
wish to know whether my understanding is right or not.  Could you let me
have your answer?
Thank you very much.

Ickchan Kim

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> Ickchan Kim                              Office Phone: (979)845-9598
> ickim@tamu.edu                           C.P.#       : (979)574-4179
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> Office: ENPH #401, Conduction Heat Transfer Lab.
>         Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
>         College Station, Texas 77843-3123
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Ickchan Kim                              Office Phone: (979)845-9598
ickim@tamu.edu                           C.P.#       : (979)574-4179

Office: ENPH #401, Conduction Heat Transfer Lab.
        Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
        College Station, Texas 77843-3123