Answer to Question #175442 in General Chemistry for Nel

Question

What refers to the number of ways the energy of a system can be dispersed through the motions of its particles?

Answer 1

Entropy is described as measuring the energy dispersal for a system by the number of accessible microstates, the number of different arrangements of all its energy at the next instant. Here, the greater 'dispersal of the total energy of a system' means the existence of many possibilities.