(a) What is the difference between a state and a microstate of a system?

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Hello everyone today. We are being given the following problem, differentiate a micro state of a system from a state of a system. So what we want to do is we want to recall a state and the state is going to describe the macro scope pick view of a system. So it's going to look at a big scale big scale factors such as pressure and temperature immediately that gets rid of answer choices, see indeed since they state that a state of a system describes the microscopic view and that is incorrect because we stated that it is a macroscopic view. Next you wanna recall the definition of a micro state and in a micro state right here in a micro state we're gonna have a micro scalp pick view of the systems atoms that corresponds to a systems given state. And so as we said before, this is going to be a specific write this in the beginning, it's a specific microscopic view. And so that only leaves answer choice B as being the correct answer. So once again, the micro state of a system is the specific microscopic arrangement of the atoms or molecules of the system. Whereas a state of a system describes the macroscopic view of the system at a specific time. And with that we've answered the question. I hope this helped. And until next time