Explain the difference between macrostates and microstates?

Q: examples of application of the second law of thermodynamics

A: According to the 2nd law of thermodynamics, the total entropy of any system will always either…

Q: Describe the second law of thermodynamics and its importance in determining the spontaneity of a…

A: The second law of thermodynamics states that "the entropy of an isolated system always increases and…

Q: Explain Internal energy (U)?

A: Internal energy is the total energy contained in a system, so it is equal to the sum of all possible…

Q: Which of these processes result in an entropy decrease of the system?

A: Entropy means randomness. All spontaneous processes have positive or zero entropy change. This means…

Q: The combustion of gasoline is a spontaneous process. If this reaction proceeds spontaneously, why…

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Q: What is a spontaneous process?

A: Spontaneous process is a irreversible process

Q: Two systems, each composed of two particles represented by circles, have 20 J of total energy. Which…

A: The system which has greater entropy has to be given and the reason has to be explained.

Q: 6. Enthalpy provides a quantitative measure of how much energy is spread out when something happens.…

A: Enthalpy is a state function which measures quantitatively the energy transferred after the reaction…

Q: A woman shuts her summer cottage up in September and returns in June. No one has entered the cottage…

A: A woman shuts her summer cottage up in September and returns in June. No one has entered the cottage…

Q: Determine the entropy difference between solid and liquid states for a substance melting at 100 °C…

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Q: Calculate how much heat (in kilojoules) a hand warmer containing 23.0 g of iron powder produces.

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Q: What are the different phases of entropy and their description?

A: The entropy tells us about the disorderness of the system or we can say that the randomness of the…

Q: State the third law of thermodynamics. How is it interpreted in a microscopic thermodynamic sense?

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Q: Entropy is a physical property of matter that has few practical uses in chemical engineering and in…

A: Entropy is physical property of matter that has few practical uses in chemical engineering and in…

Q: It refers to how a circumstance can occur without the help of any external factors? a. Enthalpy O b.…

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Q: How does probability relate to spontaneity

A: A spontaneous chemical reaction proceed like a downhill. The spontaneity of a reaction can also be…

Q: Which thermodynamic quantities are not a state function?

A: Both path and state functions are frequently faced in thermodynamics. A thermodynamic property whose…

Q: Describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

A: In order to overcome the limitation of first law of thermodynamics second law of thermodynamics was…

Q: 1. Briefly distinguish between the following: a) Spontaneous and Reversible processes b) Entropy and…

A: Since you have posted a question with multiple sub-parts, we will solve first three subparts for…

Q: When a system is at absolute zero, it has only one microstate. O True O False

A: Ans Microstates are number of possible accessible states or accessibility of the population of the…

Q: A certain reaction has ∆?°= -19.5KJ and ∆S°= 42.7 J/K, does the reaction lead to an increase or…

A: here in given question change in entropy is given positive it means as reaction move forward entropy…

Q: Which of the following is not considered an extensive property? O Weight O Temperature O Entropy O…

A: Extensive property => properties of substance which are depend on mass or amount of substance.…

Q: What is the chemical significance of a negative enthalpy change and a negative entropy change?

A: Enthalpy change is nothing but the amount of heat evolved or absorbed during a chemical reaction at…

Q: entropy?

A: Entropy, the measure of a system's thermal energy per unit temperature that is unavailable for doing…

Q: From your knowledge of microstates and the structure of liquid water, explain the difference in…

A: Finding: Microstates To find Structure of liquid water

Q: III of thermodynamics. Explain your law.

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Q: Two systems, each composed of two particles represented by circles, have 20 J of total energy. Which…

A: Given data : Two systems, each compound of two particles , represented by the circkes have 20 J of…

Q: What is the precise definition of entropy?

A: Entropy is a thermodynamic state function that determines randomness in a system.  When we raise…

Q: Under what circumstance can the entropy of a system decrease for a spontaneous process

A: The entropy tells the randomness present in the system due to its disorderness created in the system…

Q: Which of the following definitions correlate to the term spontaneous change? O Possible…

A: Spontaneous process: A spontaneous process is a process which occurs without any external input to…

Q: Consider a system of three particles in a container that is mentally divided in half.  You can think…

A: Since you have posted a question with multiple sub-parts, we will solve first three sub-parts for…

Q: Differentiate between Macrostate and Microstate?

A: Thermodynamics is the branch of chemistry which deals with the study of heat and other forms of…

Q: Are the earth and sun in thermal equilibrium? Are there entropy changes associated with the…

A: 1. The earth and the Sun are not in the thermal equilibrium. As sun is much hotter or is having…

Q: Explain the difference between macrostates (external arrangements of particles) and microstates…

A: Microstate and macrostate both are two types of arrangements.  A microstate is the possible internal…

Q: The change in free energy for a process occurring under standard conditions, such as 1 atm pressure…

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Q: The number of microstates

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Q: A mathematical interpretation of First Law of Thermodynamics is: O a. Q=ART O b. Q=AU + A C. Q=RT

A: Given  First law of thermodynamics

Q: Explain the second law of thermodynamics and give examples

A: The second law of thermodynamics states that the change in energy from one form to another is…

Q: What is the entropy of a system that has only a single microstate?

A: Entropy is defined in the terms of randomness that a system possess or the disordered state. Change…

Q: Does the entropy of the system increase, decrease, or stay the same when the volume of a gas…

A: Entropy is the thermal energy of a system per unit of temperature. This energy is not available for…

Q: :The entropy of a reversible process is .A Sf = Si .B Sf>Si .C Sf < Si

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Q: Explain the significance of entropy

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Q: Indicate whether each statement is true or false. CO21g2 and Ar(g) have nearly the same molar mass.…

A: The degrees of freedom of rotational and vibrational motion are directly proportional to the number…

Q: Explain Thermodynamic Processes?

A: The four types of thermodynamic process are isobaric, isochoric, isothermal and adiabatic.