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Covers the study of (primarily homogeneous) macroscopic systems from a heat/energy/entropy point of view. Consider also using the tag: [statistical-mechanics].

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What is the number of microscopic states/configurations of a system? Are diffferent definiti...

I think you may be misunderstanding your first equation. Let us break it down. The first part of your expression, $$ \frac{N!}{\prod_{l} a_{l} !}, $$ is the number of ways to distribute $N$ distinct o …
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Confusion regarding temperature and entropy

Although the subject is called thermodynamics, it is more like thermostatics, since there is no dynamic (there is no time). … The study of non-equilibrium thermodynamics (which is actually thermodynamics) and the definition of quantities, like the temperature, in these systems is a field of research. …
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Describing the temperature of a gas in a two-dimensional box

That can be done using a Dirac delta when integrating over all the possible values of the momentum $$\Omega\left(E_{0}\right)=\int\Pi_{i=1}^{N}\dfrac{dp_{ix}dp_{iy}}{h^{2}}dx_idy_i\delta\left(E_{0}-\s …
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What is wrong with this definition of ordered state?

There is another perspective about order/disorder. Imagine that you have $10^{100}$ unbiased coins. What are the differences between a sequence (I used the word sequence because I care about the order …
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