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15.7 Exercise 6

Avg difficulty 2.5

(a) If tossing 100 coins, how many ways (microstates) are there to get the three most likely macrostates of 49 heads and 51 tails, 50 heads and 50 tails, and 51 heads and 49 tails? (b) What percent of the total possibilities is this? (Consult the table.)

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 15.7 Statistical Interpretation of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: The Underlying Explanation, exercise 6

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