Abstract
Students often have difficulty understanding the concepts of entropy and irreversibility, and to a lesser extent, temperature. This is partially due to the statistical nature of these concepts and the abstract connection between probability and energy. The example of a large collection of coins is used to elucidate the basic concepts of probability (in particular, the law of large numbers), and uses them in the same setting to disentangle the more difficult notions of temperature, entropy, and irreversibility.
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