Problem 1: Fermi temperature of the sun At the center of the sun, the temperature is approximately 107K and the concentration of electrons is approximately 1032 per cubic meter. Would it be (approximately) valid to treat these electrons as a classical gas (using Boltzmann statistics), or as a degenerate Fermi gas (with T × 0), or neither?

Problem 1: Fermi temperature of the sun At the center of the sun, the temperature is approximately 107K and the concentration of electrons is approximately 1032 per cubic meter. Would it be (approximately) valid to treat these electrons as a classical gas (using Boltzmann statistics), or as a degenerate Fermi gas (with T × 0), or neither?

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