06 August, 2008

For Maggie

Here's the PV=nRT derivation from HY=EY. I thought about typing it all out nice and neat but figured that would waste TOO much time. So, here are the scans dad or Cindy or some elf/dwarf/pixie sent me. It made a lot more sense when I was in the class. Oh PChem...

KKKKT!


Page 1

Page 2
(just a little but it is important)

Page 3

The end.
PV=nRT, isn't it beautiful when something comes together?

Lordy, I hate PChem. They try to fit EVERYTHING into a straight line of y=mx+b.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

They just try to make it simple for engineers. Plug in values and grind is what we do best.

Anonymous said...

Wow.

That cleared it RIGHT up.

niftysunburn said...

As my PChem prof would say, "Intuitively obvious to the casual observer." Don't ask me to derive all of thermodynamics from a brick. I don't think I could. Matter of fact, I couldn't. But she could.

Anonymous said...

I love when you talk and I have no idea what you said. It's charming. And frustrating.

Just another facet of what makes us family, eh?

Moose you.

Anonymous said...

I believe your response was actually ... "give me the 'brick' so I can throw it at your face!" Geez James - who can't derive any law of thermodynamics from a brick!!!! I believe all you had to remember was that one side of the brick couldn't be cold while the other was hot. =)

p.s. before a closer look, I thought that this was that 'funny image' sent through email with the unhappy ending!

Miss Serling said...

Is that a drawing of stevenson at the bottom?

niftysunburn said...
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niftysunburn said...

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That's the best Stevenson I can give you with limited resources at the present time. I tried to capture her the way I remember her best... with a hat, wide eyed, lips pulled back and uttering her trademark phrase.

Apologies for the asterisks... it was the only way to get the formatting correct.