A-level differentiation/derivative dilemma

In summary: What is the difference between the derivative and differentiation?The difference between the derivative and differentiation is that the derivative is a point-wise definition of the rate of change of a function at a point in its domain, while differentiation is a general algorithm for finding the derivative of a function.
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Martin Harris said:
Yes, I understood is 1/V because of the ln derivation.
In this 2nd picture could you please tell me how he recognized , how did he found out that those terms are 1st term 2nd term 3rd term ?What was the criteria?How he identified which term is 1st which is 2nd and how?
Please see below
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Thank you in advance
Referring to the equation that starts with
"##\beta A^{id} = \dots##"
He's taking the partial with respect to ##\beta## of both sides of that equation.
The order "first", "second", "third" is simply the order of the terms on the right side of the equation.
First term -- is the first term on the right side of the equation.
Second term -- is the second term on the right side of the equation, but I don't see the connection between the second term in the equation above and the work he shows here. There is apparently some substitution going on, but what the image you attached doesn't show what it is.
Third term -- is -N times the first term in the last pair of brackets; namely, ##-N\ln(q_{rot})##. How that is related to ##\ln(\beta)##, I have no idea -- there is not enough information shown in the image.
The remaining terms are independent of T (so it says), so can be ignored.
 
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Martin Harris said:
My problem is in the 3rd picture.
that 35335 comes from ΔU=ϑCvΔT I guess, but why?
No idea. I looked pretty closely for this formula, but I was not able to find it.
BTW, this character -- ϑ -- is "theta" in something that I think is a cursive script.
Do you mean this character -- ∂ -- ? I don't know a name for it, but it's the one used in partial derivatives. You can find it at the right end of the first row of the symbols under the Σ menu item.
Martin Harris said:
And also when I try to compute the other 2 terms from the brackets I cannot manage to get that values?
I use same formulas as in 1st picture but instead of T=300K I put T=2000K and still don't get the values.
 
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Mark44 said:
No idea. I looked pretty closely for this formula, but I was not able to find it.
BTW, this character -- ϑ -- is "theta" in something that I think is a cursive script.
Do you mean this character -- ∂ -- ? I don't know a name for it, but it's the one used in partial derivatives. You can find it at the right end of the first row of the symbols under the Σ menu item.
Thank you for your answers, I was trying to refer to that symbol as Niu(Number of moles)
 
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Martin Harris said:
I was trying to refer to that symbol as Niu(Number of moles)
Greek letter nu? That would be ##\nu## (lowercase). Uppercase Nu looks just like the Roman letter N.
 

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