STAT 101 Lecture 5: rec05notescomplete
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Please collect your second homework assignment and check in. I have a problem for you to work on while this happens. Then, we"ll do a quick recap of some important formulas, and then we"ll solve some more problems. Suppose i have a box that is separated into two compartments. There are two red particles in the left compartment and two blue particles in the right compartment. If the particles do not interact and cannot pass through the barrier, there is exactly one way for the particles to be in the left and right compartments. In other words, if we order the particles where the red ones come rst and blue ones come second, we can view this system as (l, l, r, r) for lefts and rights. We"ll refer to this vector as a microstate. Now suppose that we remove the barrier so that the particles can move to either side.
