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 of this system if the box contains two distinguishable particles?

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 of this system if the box contains two distinguishable particles?

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