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Flyboy
02-03-2012, 02:49 PM
I am struggling to remember my old algebra classes... :duh:

The explanation to this problem does not show the work and I am lost at the jump from Eqn 6 to Eqn 7. Could someone show me the work to isolate 'h'

Link To The Problem: (http://www.learnthermo.com/examples/ch01/p-1e-3.php)

Thanks
~Flyboy

BTW
If you are really feeling industrious, you could continue on to show work to Eqn 11

Killerdou
02-03-2012, 03:07 PM
To isolate h, you substract all terms without h from the equation, then devide by the factor in front of h

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/3523/50365940.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/710/50365940.jpg/)

Flyboy
02-05-2012, 02:56 AM
That's brillient! Thanks a bunch. Now that I see your answer... I'm sitting here going I should have seen that. lol, hind sight is always 20/20.

side note:
I love whatever program you used to write that with, it presents it so clear and concise.

Method
02-05-2012, 03:15 AM
side note:
I love whatever program you used to write that with, it presents it so clear and concise.

If you're interested, it looks like LaTeX (http://www.latex-project.org/). It's pretty cool and fun to use if you're ever writing anything that mixes math and English (or whatever language you're using).