Wednesday, 11 October 2017

statistical mechanics - Why isn't the entropy of gas infinite if there are infinite microstates available?



How could it be that the entropy of gas is not infinite? If we use the formula $S=k\ln(\Omega)$ we get infinity because there are an infinite number of possible situations (because there are infinite possibilities of position and momentum for each molecule).




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