Answer to Question #281838 in Mechanical Engineering for john luvis

Question

Consider a system of nonrelativistic electrons in a white dwarf star at a

temperature of 10^9 K. Very roughly, what would be their density if the system

is degenerate? How does this compare with typical electron densities in

ordinary matter of about 10^30 electrons/m3?

Answer 1

nonrelativistic electrons: A particle whose velocity is small with respect to that of light.

An ideal Fermi gas is a state of matter which is an ensemble of many non-interacting fermions.