A teaching tape for LQ-05, Independent Configurations and Boltzmann Entropy

Journey I Stage E: The Microstate Counter

Walkthrough for Journey I: n = 3 enumeration, n = 60 logarithmic scaling, and the locked comparison.

Open LQ-05 with these settings

Where it starts

The settings the tape begins from, under the constant set modern-si-2019. Values are the model's own, not the laboratory control's display: a radius of 5e-7 is half a micrometre.
SettingValue
Number of Particles (n)3
Subvolume Fraction (f)0.5
Sampling Trials (trials)10000

What it changes, and what to expect

  1. Where it starts, before anything changes

    Three particles in half volume

    n = 3 gives W = 1/8.

    What the author recorded that a reader should see here.
    QuantityExpectedUnder
    W0.125 1modern-si-2019
  2. Set Number of Particles (n) to 60 changes what the run starts from

These are the values the tape's author recorded, not a result this page computed. Nothing here runs the instrument. Open LQ-05 with these settings: the link opens it with them already in place. Compare what it gives you with what is recorded here. The settings travel in the link and the laboratory reads them as it loads, so without JavaScript it opens at its worked example instead.

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