Question

What is the entropy of a closed system in which 28 distinguishable grains of sand are distributed among 1000 distinguishable equal-sized compartments?

Answer 1

Answer:

193.4 J/K

Explanation:

For a closed system, the entropy is given as the natural logarithm of microstates.

The number of particles ( grains of sand ) N = 28

The number of boxes ( compartments ) M = 1000

Entropy is the logarithm of number of microstates

$S=ln \psi$

But the number of microstates is given by

$\psi=M^{N} hence S=ln M^{N}=\ln (1000^{28})= \boxed{193.4 J/K}$