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Homework Statement I have several problems that ask me to prove that some quantity "transforms like a tensor" For example: "Suppose that for each choice of contravariant vector (a vector) A^nu(x), the quantities B_mu(x) are defined at teach point through a linear relationship of the form...

Actually I have one more question. When I do the integration by parts for -PdV I get -(PV-∫VdP). The first term in that equation should be evaluated at the limits 1 and 1000 Pa right? So I put V in terms of P, but then the P's cancel out (V=nRT/P) and there's nothing to evaluate. Is that right?

Okay, I think this gives me enough to work on. Thanks.

I assume isothermal compressibility is just how easy or hard it is to compress something at constant temperature. Can I integrate the equation for the compressibility? I'm not sure if you're allowed to separate dV and dP when they're partials at constant T. Like I said, I'm not comfortable with...

Homework Statement 1 kg of water is at room temperature and the pressure is isothermally increased on the system from 1 atmosphere to 1000 atmospheres. What is the work done? What is the change in heat? What would be the temperature change if this was done adiabatically? The volumetric...

I have always wondered about this.

I'd say step back and think about what you're trying to solve for. You want v0. So you have two unknowns really: time and the initial velocity. When you have two unknowns you're going to need two equations that involve those two unknowns to solve for them both. You're making things more...

You're definitely on the right track, but vf2 doesn't involve time, does it? Basically, you've solved for the time it takes for the ball to go 20 meters with initial velocity v0. Now, you also know that the ball has to travel 5 meters vertically in that same amount of time. Can you use that...

I don't think I've fully grasped the underlying ideas of this class, so at the moment I'm just sort of flailing for equations to plug stuff into... Homework Statement Show that in the mean field model, M is proportional to H1/3 at T=Tc and that at H=0, M is proportional to (Tc - T)1/2...

Okay, then my book's answer key is wrong. Thanks.

Fair enough, but if y is the function then x is the independent variable, right?

Homework Statement Is the equation (x2sinx + 4y) dx + x dy=0 linear This problem also asks me to solve it, but I don't have a problem with that part. Homework Equations An equation is linear if the function or its derivative are only raised to the first power and not multiplied by each other...

Right, x=0 .

Okay, I'll give it one more go... ad-bc=0 Ax=0 if we plug <-b,a> for x we get, a(-b)+b(a)=0 and c(-b)+d(a)=0, which is ad-bc=0 so ad-bc=ad-bc when x=<-b,a>?

Yeah, I think this is some of the essential kind of information I'm missing. These kind of logic statements are pretty foreign to me, so I don't actually know the difference between p implies q and q implies p. They look like they mean the same thing to me.