Study of Thermodynamic Properties of an Ideal Fermi Gas in Finite Gravitational Field

The properties of an ideal Fermi gas in finite gravitational field are studied,based on the semiclassical(Thomas-Fermi) approximation.The general analytical expressions of the total energy,Fermi energy,chemical potential and heat capacity are derived.Moreover,the analytical expressions of the chemical potential and heat capacity in the high-and low-temperature approximations are given,and then,the example of electron gas is used to calculate exactly.All these results are compared with those of free Fermi gas and Fermi gas in infinite gravitational field.The effects of finite gravitational field on properties of Fermi gas are discussed.