Entropic force is a type of emergent force that arises from the tendency of a system to maximize its entropy, or disorder. In statistical mechanics, entropy is a measure of the number of microscopic configurations that correspond to a thermodynamic system's macroscopic state. Entropic forces are not fundamental forces like gravity or electromagnetism; instead, they emerge from the statistical behavior of particles in a system due to microscopic interactions.
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