February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
29h 5m
English
Content preview from Introductory Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
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Appendix B. Mathematics
B.1. Important Relations
Algebra
Some functions like logarithms and exponentials appear so often in thermodynamics that it makes sense to summarize some of them here. Also, integrations and differentiations are frequently performed, so a few important formulae are presented.
The quadratic formula provides roots to the equation ...