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Teaching the statistical nature of the second law of thermodynamics in high school

This paper proposes to teach the statistical nature of the second law of thermodynamics in High School. We adapt a former idea by Martin Sussman to represent microstates, using materials, such as a PET bottle, marbles, and a plastic hose. We present a program to simulate the counting of states, which reproduces the distribution of marbles in the hose (Gaussian)

seconmd law; thermodynamics; statistical physics


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