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Discusses the energy balance in a white dwarf. The tendency to contract due to gravitational attraction is balanced by a kind of incompressibility of the electrons due to the exclusion principle.

(a) Matter contains protons and neutrons, which are also fanions. Why do the electrons become a hindrance to compression before the protons and neutrons do?

(b) Stars several times our Sun's mass has sufficient gravitational potential energy to collapse further than a white dwarf; they can force essentially all their matter to become neutrons (formed when electrons and protons combine). When they cool off, an energy balance is reached like that in the white dwarf but with the neutrons filling the role of the incompressible fermions. The result is a neutron star. Repeat the process of Exercise 89. but assume a body consisting solely of neutrons. Show that the equilibrium radius is given by

R=322G(322mn8M)1/3

(c) Show that the radius of a neutron star whose mass is twice that of our Sun is only about10km .

Short Answer

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  1. The electron becomes the first significant hindrance to the compression of a star before protons and neutrons do.
  2. Therefore, the minimum total energy occurs when the radius of the star is R=322G322mn8M13,

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The radius of a neutron star whose mass is twice that of our sun is only about 10km.

Step by step solution

01

Electrons become a hindrance to compression

The electrons present in different atoms of a star are placed in various shells. Thus, the distance between the two electrons is smaller relatively than the distance between the two protons or neutrons.

The interaction of proton and neutron with the neighbouring atom is little than the interaction of electron with the neighbouring atom. This is because the protons or neutrons of different atoms are so far apart from each other than the electrons of same atoms. Thus, electron interaction is considered first and becomes only first significant hindrance to the compression of the star.

Therefore, the electron becomes the first significant hindrance to compression of a star before protons and neutrons do.

02

Expression for minimum energy of neutron, for total energy of neutron and for gravitational energy

The expression for the minimum energy of the neutron is given by:

Uneutrons=310(32h3mn32V)23N53

Here, mn is the mass of neutron and h is the plank's constant.

The expression for the total energy of the neutron star is given by,

UTotal=Uneutron+Ug

The expression for the gravitational energy of a sphere of massM and radiusR is given by,

Ug=3GM25R

03

Minimum energy

The minimum energy that is allowed by the exclusion principle is

Uneutrons=310323mn32V23N53=3210mn32V23N53=3210mn3243R323N53=3210mn94R323N53

On further solving,

Uelectron=3210mn8121613N53R2

Uelectron=3210mnR2812N51613

04

Mass of neutron

Since the mass of neutron star M is because of number of neutrons N multiplied by the mass of single neutron mn as:

M=NmnN=Mmn

Put the value of into equation (1),

Uelectron=3210mnR2812Mmn51613=3210mnR2812M5mn51613=3210mnR2812M516mn513=3210mnR23232M52mn513

On further solving,

Uelectron=9220R232M52mn813

The total energy of the star is calculated as:

UTotal=Uneutron+Ug=9220R232M52mn8133GM25R

Here, is the reduced Plank's constant and G is the universal gravitational constant.

The minimum total energy is calculated by taking its derivative with respect radius equal to zero.

ddRUTotal=0ddR9220R232M52mn8133GM25R=0(2)9220R332M52mn813(1)3GM25R2=09210meR332M52mn813+3GM25R2=0

On further solving, you get

3GM25R2=9210meR332M52mn813GM2R=32232M52mn813

R=322GM232M52mn813=322G322mn8M13

Therefore, the minimum total energy occurs when radius of star is .

05

Define the radius of star

Considered the known data as below.

The reduced planks constant, =1.0551034Js

The universal constant,G=6.671011Nm2/kg2

Mass of the single neutron, mn=1.671027kg

The mass of neutron star, M=21030kg

The radius of the star is calculated as:

R=322G322mn8M13

R=31.0551034Js226.671011Nm2/kg233.14221.671027kg8221030kg13=0.250310570.061121018613=0.250310570.3941062=0.09862105m

R=9862m1km1000m=9.862km10km

Hence, the radius of neutron star whose mass is twice that of our sun is only about 10km.

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