It's the physicist's definition, for whose purposes it is quite useful. And yeah, the physics students at your ivy league school learned H = log|microstates| a

It's the physicist's definition, for whose purposes it is quite useful. And yeah, the physics students at your ivy league school learned H = log|microstates| also. Anyway, entropy as a count of microstates has to be packaged with a couple of additional ideas to give rise to the concept as used in chemistry/etc. First, that the microstates are randomly explored by the system, and second, that the number of microstates is so mind-boggling exponentially huge that the most common ones will be the only ones you ever see in practice.