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In this chapter we consider the electron gas, assumed to behave as a perfect gas. We discuss the equation of state in the simple case of a perfect gas, the gas pressure, and mean molecular weight, and the chapter concludes with a discussion of the phenomenon of degeneracy.
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Chandrasekhar, S.: An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure. Dover, New York (1965). Classical book on stellar structure, containing tables of the function f(x)
Clayton, D. D.: Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis. Cited in Chap. 1 Includes a good discussion of the equation of state, and tables with the Fermi-Dirac functions
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Maciel, W.J. (2016). The Electron Gas. In: Introduction to Stellar Structure. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16142-6_3
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