5. You take the same three-state protein from problem #2 and generate a collection of proteins in which initially half are in state A and half are in state B.
A) Find the average energy per protein molecule, assuming the ground state has energy zero.
B) Explain why this initial distribution of states cannot be the one with maximum entropy.
C) After energies have redistributed and reached an equilibrium distribution, what is the average energy per protein molecule?
D) Find the distribution of molecules among the three states after energy redistribution has occurred. (That is, find the three probabilities pA, pB, and pC.) You should not assume that the temperature is 300 K at equilibrium.
question 2: You engineer an artificial switch-like protein that has three states: A, B, and C. State A is the ground
state. State B has an energy 5 kJ/mol higher than that of state A, and state C has an energy 5 kJ/mol
higher than that of state B.