Suppose you have a "box" in which each particle may occupy any of 10 single-particle states. For simplicity, assume that each of these states has energy zero. What is the partition function if the box contains two identical fermions?

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Suppose you have a "box" in which each particle may occupy any of 10 single-particle states. For simplicity, assume that each of these states has energy zero.

What is the partition function if the box contains two identical fermions?

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