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2001 II 6B

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The distance of closest approach is $b=\frac{e^{2}}{T}$ , and the distance between particles is $n - 1 / 3$ The ratio is then:

$\frac{b}{n^{-1/3}}=\frac{e^{2}}{n^{-1/3}T}=\frac{1}{4\pi n^{2/3}\lambda_{D}^{2}}$

Where we have used $\lambda_{D}^{2}=T/4\pi n_{e}e^{2}$ . The number of particles in a debye sphere is:

$\Lambda=\frac{4}{3}\pi n\lambda_{D}^{3}$

So that this ratio is expressable as:

$\frac{b}{n^{-1/3}}=\left(4\pi\right)^{-1/3}3^{-2/3}\Lambda^{-2/3}\approx\frac{1}{4}\Lambda^{-2/3}$

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