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PSAT 1.6 Math Narrative Walkthrough. What's the best way to rearrange the Combined Gas Law to isolate the unknown?

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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by the combined gas law which basically sets a limit

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on elevator flatulence Because it's a long way to the

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ground floor Yeah all right One form of the combined

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gas law is an equation to help us find out

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how a certain amount of gas changes With the change

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in its conditions the laws written below he one times

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be won over T wan equals p two times me

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two over t to temperatures t pressures p volumes vi

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and wanted to show two different conditions A scientist knows

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how a gas Acts under condition 1 and wants to

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find out how the temperature would change when that same

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gas is put in a smaller container under higher pressure

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What's the best way to rearrange the combined gas lotto

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Isolate the unknown And here the lancers Right We're going

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to move around a whole bunch of letters There's Some

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scientists hanging out in a lab all day playing around

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with gas We had our fingers cross for him that

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this gas would be odorless But well the clothes pin

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thing here Yeah that's Not a good sign Okay so

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let's take a look see at our equation So the

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pressure times the volume divided by the temperature of the

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gas under the first set of conditions is equal to

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the pressure times the volume divided by the temperature under

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the second set of conditions Now we don't need to

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solve for anything which is good because we don't see

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any actual numbers We just need to figure out how

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this equation should be rearranged Teo as the problem states

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isolate the unknown So uh what's the unknown Not now

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guys We're talking more local Well we were told that

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our hero knows how the gas Acts under condition 1

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So if that's all known we must not need to

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isolate any of these three guys The problem also states

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that he's going to put the gas in a smaller

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container which would affect the volume and under higher pressure

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knew that the only unknown here is going to be

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the temperature under the second set of conditions In fact

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the problem even says that when it mentions the scientist

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wants to find out how the temperature would change So

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yeah we need to get tea too All by myself

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Which is a little terrifying because we saw what happened

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in the movie I'll be shmoop to isolate t to

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weaken start by dividing both sides of the equation by

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p to v to to get one over t two

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equals he won times be won over p two times

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feed two times t one we're taking the reciprocal of

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both sides We wind up with t two equals p

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two times v two tons t one all overpay one

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times be one We've got tea too by itself which

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is what we wanted and it looks like option c

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is our man He ask us to Those elevators should

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also institute a combined be olaf because no one should

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have to pay for another's lack of hygiene Well in

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a small confined space we might just write our congressman 00:02:37.66 --> [endTime] would be shmoop

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