At the center of the sun, the temperature is approximately

Chapter 7, Problem 20P

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Problem 20P

At the center of the sun, the temperature is approximately 107 K and the concentration of electrons is approximately 1032 per cubic meter. Would it be (approximately) valid to treat these electrons as a “classical” ideal gas (using Boltzmann statistics), or as a degenerate Fermi gas (with T  ≈ 0) , or neither?

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