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  1. statistical mechanics - When are all microstates equally probable ...

    For ‘system microstate’ A there are a vast number of ways the remaining (entirety of the) energy can be distributed amongst the reservoir – there are far more ‘system + reservoir’ microstates …

  2. What constitutes a microstate? - Physics Stack Exchange

    Sep 19, 2022 · A microstate is something like a specific configuration of particles in a system. However, does this consist only of the energies of the specific particles? Or are the velocities …

  3. Microstate and Phase space - Physics Stack Exchange

    Apr 8, 2022 · Pathria, Statistical mechanics, 4ed,pg32-33 "The microstate of a given classical system, at any time, may be defined by specifying the instantaneous positions and …

  4. Confusion About Entropy - Physics Stack Exchange

    Mar 1, 2023 · A microstate is an exact (to infinite detail) description of the water molecules including impurities etc. - their orientation, position, velocity vectors, electromagnetic properties …

  5. thermodynamics - The number of microstates is independent of …

    Dec 22, 2023 · You are misreading the text. The microstates can have any energy. It is the entire ensemble that has a fixed total energy. This fixed energy is the sum of all the energies of the …

  6. What is a microstate, macrostate and thermodynamic probability …

    A microstate is a specific microscopic configuration of a thermodynamic system,that the system may occupy with certain probability in the course of its thermal fluctuation.

  7. Entropy of a system: microstates and macrostates

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  8. Two definitions of a macrostate - Physics Stack Exchange

    Mar 22, 2019 · A microstate, is characterized by a full description of the microscopic dynamical state of the (many) elementary degrees of freedom. Relations between the two concepts go as …

  9. thermodynamics - If all microstates are equally probable, why …

    Dec 29, 2018 · One of the assumptions of the thermo textbook I'm reading is that the probability of any given microstate of a system is equally likely to occur. This does not mean that the …

  10. What are the definitions of microstates and macrostates?

    Aug 10, 2015 · I have been looking up definitions for microstates and macrostates of a thermodynamic-system. I am looking for clear conditions for systems to be in the same macro- …