“The number of microstates for a given macrostate tends to increase over time”
Or, are microstate and macrostate also garblejargon?
That’s not true. The number of microstates per macrostate is fixed.
You are right—my mistake.
An increase in entropy is a movement from a macrostate with a smaller number of microstates to a macrostate with a larger number of microstates.
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“The number of microstates for a given macrostate tends to increase over time”
Or, are microstate and macrostate also garblejargon?
“The number of microstates for a given macrostate tends to increase over time”
That’s not true. The number of microstates per macrostate is fixed.
You are right—my mistake.
An increase in entropy is a movement from a macrostate with a smaller number of microstates to a macrostate with a larger number of microstates.