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Problem 4
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Section: Problems by Topic
Chapter 17: Free Energy and Thermodynamics
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16 Nov 2021
Given information
System and
has the total energy
each.
Both system and
consists of three particles.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
The following are some of the various energetically equivalent ways to transfer energy among the three particles in two systems:
- Three particles with the same amount of energy.
- Two particles with the same energy and the third particle with a different energy than the two particles with the same energy.
- Three particles with varying energies.
The entropy of a given system is a measurement of the system's randomness, which is the distribution of the particles involved. The higher the entropy, the more dispersed the system is.
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