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Consider a system of N spin 2 particles with allowed spin values −2,−1,0,1,2 for each particle. Compute the degeneracy factor for the case of zero total spin. Specialize to the case of N=10 for which compute the degeneracies for all possible total spin configurations. For each such configuration, draw a maximum of 10 representative examples.
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