Degeneracy and moles

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When calculating what the degeneracy for one mole, what does the "a" stand for in W = 2^Na?

[isabella1012]

im pretty sure its Avogadro's number and its when you're solving for particles

[Lizze Cardoso 2I]

The "a" represents Avogadro's number and is used when calculating degenarcy for 1 mole of substances.

[Gianna McNiel 1I]

I think A is Avogadro's number because when looking at this units, this would give you the number of particles. We use the number of particles to get W by having the number of possible positions to the n number of particles.

[SanthoshNandakumar3L]

I have a follow up question...When we have to take the number of microstates to the power of Avogadro's number, how do we calculate W because my calculator says the value is too large to compute? I know it has something to do with properties of log, but I am not sure exactly how to solve for W in the cases with Avogadro's number.

[Yijia_ZHOU]

I have a follow up question...When we have to take the number of microstates to the power of Avogadro's number, how do we calculate W because my calculator says the value is too large to compute? I know it has something to do with properties of log, but I am not sure exactly how to solve for W in the cases with Avogadro's number.

Based on my understanding, if W is the amount of microstates something can have, then we mainly focus in this class on how many different possible orientations there are (like for example CO could be C-O or O-C so W would be 2).