Why is the probability of a system's ground state larger than the probabilities of its excited states for a system in thermal equilibrium with a reservoir? In answering this you may want to consider your calculations in this worksheet. a. Adding energy to the large reservoir increases the total entropy more than adding the same amount of energy to the system. b. Removing all energy from the system increases its entropy the most. c. The probability of the state of the system is maximized when the number of microstates of the system is maximized. d. The probability of the state of the system is maximized when the number of microstates for that state of the system and reservoir is maximized.
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Why is the probability of a system's ground state larger than the probabilities of its excited states for a system in thermal equilibrium with a reservoir? In answering this you may want to consider your calculations in this worksheet.
a. Adding energy to the large reservoir increases the total entropy more than adding the same amount of energy to the system.
b. Removing all energy from the system increases its entropy the most.
c. The probability of the state of the system is maximized when the number of microstates of the system is maximized.
d. The probability of the state of the system is maximized when the number of microstates for that state of the system and reservoir is maximized.
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