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Statistical Mechanics Lecture on Entropy (Leonard Susskind)

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A YouTube lecture by physicist Leonard Susskind on entropy in statistical mechanics, framing it in terms of microstates and macrostates. It is part of his broader physics lecture series.

One commenter calls it a great lecture on entropy and links it as the follow-up to their explanation of entropy as hidden information.

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  1. Recommendsdrekembemutombo2018in “Battling Entropy”

    Entropy is more accurately defined as hidden information, or the number of possible microstates that a system in a certain macrostate could have. Here's a great lecture by Leonard Susskind on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7eW-xPEvoQ

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