Macrostate ↩

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created: 2022-05-28 18:43:47
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A macrostate of a physical system refers to its macroscopic properties, such as its temperature, pressure, volume or number of particles.

From this perspective, microstates show possible different ways the system can achieve a particular macrostate.

Examples

Box of gas example

The macrostate of a box of gas labeled by would be the set of all microstates with energy , volume and particle number .

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