Hostname: page-component-5db58dd55d-xnzfm Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-05-27T01:33:28.483Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

On Partial Differentiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

M. Bruckheimer  and
R. E. Scraton
M. Bruckheimer
Affiliation:
Open University, London S.W.1
R. E. Scraton
Affiliation:
University of Bradford, Bradford 7
Get access

Extract

From a university examination paper:

" The variables P, V, T, ϕ are connected by the relations

PV = RT, ϕ = C v log P + C p log V,

where Cp, Cv and R are constants, and Cp — Cv = R. Prove that

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 53 , Issue 385 , October 1969 , pp. 247 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1969

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

1. Bruckheimer, M., Gowar, N. W. and Scraton, R. E., Mathematics for Technology: A New Approach. Chatto & Windus, 1968.Google Scholar
2. Lightstone, A. H., Concepts of Calculus, Vols I and II. Harper & Row, 1966.Google Scholar