?(a) What is the difference between a state and a microstate of a system? (b) As a system goes from state A to state B, its entropy decreases

Chapter 19, Problem 19.30

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(a) What is the difference between a state and a microstate of a system?

(b) As a system goes from state A to state B, its entropy decreases. What can you say about the number of microstates corresponding to each state?

(c) In a particular spontaneous process, the number of microstates available to the system decreases. What can you conclude about the sign of \(\Delta S_{\text {surr }}\)?

Text Transcription:

\Delta S_surr

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