Calculating Microstates and Residual Entropy

[IsabelMurillo3K]

How many microstates are available to a regular dice? What would be the residual entropy associated with a collection of 3 dice?
Hey guys! This was a question that I had on my discussion section practice quiz. I was wondering what steps we would take to solve this problem and what equations/formulas we would need?
Thank you!

[Juliet Cushing_2H]

My guess would be that one regular dice has 6 possible positions, so the degeneracy of 3 dice would be 6^3

[Kaihan_Danesh_2J]

There are six possible outcomes of the dice, so there are 6 microstates, and you put 6 to the power of whatever number of dice you have to calculate the degeneracy. Then, plug that value into the residual entropy equation, S=Kb * lnW

[Susanna Givan 2B]

do we need to know how to calculate microstates?