A box contains 100 gas molecules all released on the left side of the box. What is the initial entropy of all the gas molecules on one side? You can calculate the number of microstates (left/right distribution of molecules) possible by the equation W = N! / ( nL! * nR!,) where N is the total number of molecules and nL is the number on the left and nR is the number on the right. What is the entropy of the most disorganized distribution of gas molecules

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A box contains 100 gas molecules all released on the left side of the box. What is the initial entropy of all the gas molecules on one side?

You can calculate the number of microstates (left/right distribution of molecules) possible by the equation W = N! / ( nL! * nR!,) where N is the total number of molecules and nL is the number on the left and nR is the number on the right. What is the entropy of the most disorganized distribution of gas molecules?

A box contains 100 gas molecules all released on the left side of the box.
What is the initial entropy of all the gas molecules on one side?
You can calculate the number of microstates (left/right distribution of
molecules) possible by the equation W = N! / ( nį! * nr!,) where N is the
total number of molecules and n is the number on the left and ng is the
number on the right. What is the entropy of the most disorganized
distribution of gas molecules?
Transcribed Image Text:A box contains 100 gas molecules all released on the left side of the box. What is the initial entropy of all the gas molecules on one side? You can calculate the number of microstates (left/right distribution of molecules) possible by the equation W = N! / ( nį! * nr!,) where N is the total number of molecules and n is the number on the left and ng is the number on the right. What is the entropy of the most disorganized distribution of gas molecules?
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