microstate

Examples of microstate in the following topics:

• Stastical Interpretation of Entropy

  • The following table shows all possibilities along with numbers of possible configurations (or microstate; a detailed description of every element of a system).
  • Note that all of these conclusions are based on the crucial assumption that each microstate is equally probable.
  • There is only 1 way (1 microstate) to get the most orderly arrangement of 100 heads.
  • There are very few ways to accomplish this (very few microstates corresponding to it), and so it is exceedingly unlikely ever to occur.

• The Third Law

  • Entropy is related to the number of possible microstates, and with only one microstate available at zero kelvin the entropy is exactly zero.
  • where kB is the Bolzmann constant and W is the number of microstates.