Kinetic energy distribution of free electrons

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Clara Chung
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Is the distribution the same as Boltzmann distribution? Have anyone made a mathematic equation for the KE of free electrons on a piece of metal?
 
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No, it is not.
And yes, it was "made". You can find it in most Solid State books. It is called a Fermi-Dirac distribution.
 
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