Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
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ISBN 13: 978-1-28574-155-0

Chapter 14 - Section 14.3 - Partial Derivatives - 14.3 Exercise - Page 926: 88

Answer

$\dfrac{\partial P}{\partial V}\dfrac{\partial V}{\partial T}\dfrac{\partial T}{\partial P}=-1$

Work Step by Step

Recall some relationships such as; $P= \dfrac{mRT}{V} ,V=\dfrac{mRT}{P}; T= \dfrac{PV}{mR}$ For $\dfrac{\partial P}{\partial T}$, all other variables aside from $T$ to be treated as constants. and $\dfrac{\partial P}{\partial T}=\dfrac{\partial}{\partial T}[\dfrac{mRT}{V}]=\dfrac{mR}{V}$ Here, we have $\dfrac{\partial T}{\partial P}=\dfrac{V}{mR}$ and $\dfrac{\partial P}{\partial V}\dfrac{\partial V}{\partial T}\dfrac{\partial T}{\partial P}=\dfrac{-mRT}{V^{2}}\times \dfrac{mR}{P}\times\dfrac{V}{mR}$ and $\dfrac{-mRT}{PV}=\dfrac{-mRT}{\dfrac{mRT}{V}\times V}=-1$ Hence, we have $\dfrac{\partial P}{\partial V}\dfrac{\partial V}{\partial T}\dfrac{\partial T}{\partial P}=-1$
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