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15.7 Exercise 10

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(a) Construct a table showing the macrostates and all of the individual microstates for tossing 6 coins. (Use the table as a guide.) (b) How many macrostates are there? (c) What is the total number of microstates? (d) What percent chance is there of tossing 5 heads and 1 tail? (e) How much more likely are you to toss 3 heads and 3 tails than 5 heads and 1 tail? (Take the ratio of the number of microstates to find out.)

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 15.7 Statistical Interpretation of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: The Underlying Explanation, exercise 10

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