Adiabatic & Quasistatic Expansion of Photon & Fermion Gases

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Homework Statement


1.Show that
PV^Y is a constant for adiabatic,quassistatic expansion of a photongas and determine Y
2. Show the same for full degenerate gas of fermions at T=0

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The Attempt at a Solution






Plz help thx
 
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