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Razael
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Homework Statement
I'm trying to find dT/dVm for the van der waals equation. I was looking at http://courses.washington.edu/bhrchem/c456/vdw_jtc.pdf" [Broken] page, but I'm confused about how they reached their result:
The Attempt at a Solution
I honestly have no idea what they did. dT/dVm of RT(Vm-b) is obviously -RT/(Vm-b)^2, and dT/dVm of -a/Vm^2 is 2a/Vm^3, and dT/dVm of P is 0, but I have no idea where [R/(Vm-b)](dT/dVm) came from. Am I missing something obvious here? It's been a while since calc.
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