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Consider a gas of non-interacting bosons associated with the energy spectrum

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Consider a gas of non-interacting bosons associated with the energy spectrum

where h and c are constants, and k   is a wave vector. Calculate the pressure of this gas at zero chemical potential. What is the pressure of radiation of a gas of photons?

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In the thermodynamic limit we have

In zero chemical potential, it is easy to show that

Note that the pressure of radiation is given by the equation of state

pV = 1/3

Taking into account the law of Stefan-Boltzmann, U = σV T4, we obtain an expression for the constaT σ.

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