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On the right side, kB is called the Boltzman constant, and omega (Ω) is the number of possible “microstates.” Let me explain with an example: Say I have four coins and four people. How many different ways can I share these coins? Well, two extreme cases would be that everyone gets one coin or that all four coins go to one person. Altogether, there are 35 possible distributions. These are the microstates (Ω). So you can think of them as possible arrangements of energy among particles while keeping…
