Would each of the following changes increase, decrease, or have no effect on the number of microstates available to a system: (b) decrease in volume

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Hello everyone today we are being given the falling problem. What happens to the number of micro states when the volume of the system decreases? So the first thing you want to make note of is what a micro state is. So a micro state is simply just the configuration of the position and the speed of all of the molecules at a particular incident. So it's the position and speed of all of our molecules in a system at a given instant. And so what does that mean? That means that volume is related to the number of positions of the particles. So if we have more particles or if we have the particles taking up a larger volume, how does that affect the number of positions? And so we can therefore conclude that when we have a decrease in our volume, that's also going to result in a decrease in the number of positions that we can have of our particles. The number of positions of our particles decreases. Which also is going to equal the decrease of the number of micro states per our definition and our relationship and how we related these variables. And so this would be the final answer. The number of micro states would decrease. I hope this helped. And until next time