ABSTRACT

Let us return for a moment to our four-molecule multi-level energy system where there are available energy levels 1E1, 2E1, 3E1, etc. For a system

 = 4

 = 6

If we were to observe this system, we might encounter any one of the 10 possible microstates, but the chances are that we will encounter a microstate that belongs to the macrostate with statistical weight  = 6 because there are more of them.