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If these are perfectly independent systems, then the total number of eigenstates is a simple product of $H_1$ and $H_2$. You can imagine this as a giant square where one axis as $H_1$ positions and the other has $H_2$ positions. So the total number of positions is:

$$10^{20} \times 10^{22} = 10^{42}$$

That is under the assumption that objects can not be superposed (e.g. we are ignoring the possibility of combinations of states in $H_1$ and $H_2$)

The entropy is then just the logarithm of the number the states times a proportionality constant:

$$S=k \ln \Omega$$

If we set $k=1$ then

$$S=\ln 10^{42} = 96.7$$

We could also use $log_{10}$, in which case the entropy is just $42$.

I would add that Mark Mitchison's answer is more correct in the way that you would calculate this, but because of the simple case proposed this would work as well.

If these are perfectly independent systems, then the total number of eigenstates is a simple product of $H_1$ and $H_2$. You can imagine this as a giant square where one axis as $H_1$ positions and the other has $H_2$ positions. So the total number of positions is:

$$10^{20} \times 10^{22} = 10^{42}$$

That is under the assumption that objects can not be superposed (e.g. we are ignoring the possibility of combinations of states in $H_1$ and $H_2$)

The entropy is then just the logarithm of the number the states times a proportionality constant:

$$S=k \ln \Omega$$

If we set $k=1$ then

$$S=\ln 10^{42} = 96.7$$

We could also use $log_{10}$, in which case the entropy is just $42$.

If these are perfectly independent systems, then the total number of eigenstates is a simple product of $H_1$ and $H_2$. You can imagine this as a giant square where one axis as $H_1$ positions and the other has $H_2$ positions. So the total number of positions is:

$$10^{20} \times 10^{22} = 10^{42}$$

That is under the assumption that objects can not be superposed (e.g. we are ignoring the possibility of combinations of states in $H_1$ and $H_2$)

The entropy is then just the logarithm of the number the states times a proportionality constant:

$$S=k \ln \Omega$$

If we set $k=1$ then

$$S=\ln 10^{42} = 96.7$$

We could also use $log_{10}$, in which case the entropy is just $42$.

I would add that Mark Mitchison's answer is more correct in the way that you would calculate this, but because of the simple case proposed this would work as well.

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If these are perfectly independent systems, then the total number of eigenstates is a simple product of $H_1$ and $H_2$. You can imagine this as a giant square where one axis as $H_1$ positions and the other has $H_2$ positions. So the total number of positions is:

$$10^{20} \times 10^{22} = 10^{42}$$

That is under the assumption that objects can not be superposed (e.g. we are ignoring the possibility of combinations of states in $H_1$ and $H_2$)

The entropy is then just the logarithm of the number the states times a proportionality constant:

$$S=k \ln \Omega$$

If we set $k=1$ then

$$S=\ln 10^{42} = 96.7$$

We could also use $log_{10}$, in which case the entropy is just $42$.