Simple Equations

Simple Equations
"Linear" equations are equations with just a plain old variable like "x", rather than something more complicated like x2 or x/y or square roots or such. Linear equations are the simplest equations that you'll deal with. You've probably already solved linear equations; you just didn't know it. Back in your early years, when you were learning addition, your teacher probably gave you worksheets to complete that had exercises like the following. Once you'd learned your addition facts well enough, you knew that you had to put a "2" in the box. Solving equations works in much the same way, but now you have to figure out what goes into the x, instead of what goes into the box. However, since you're older now, the equations can be much more complicated, and therefore the methods you'll use to solve the equations will be a bit more advanced. In general, to solve an equation for a given variable, you need to "undo" whatever has been done to the variable. You do this in order to get the variable by itself; in technical terms, you are "isolating" the variable. This results in "(variable) equals (some number)", where (some number) is the answer they're looking for. Solve x + 6 = 3 I want to get the x by itself; that is, I want to get "x" on one side of the "equals" sign, Know More About :- Definition of Rational Numbers

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and some number on the other side. Since I want just x on the one side, this means that I don't like the "plus six" that's currently on the same side as the x. Since the 6 is added to the x, I need to subtract to get rid of it. That is, I will need to subtract a 6 from the x in order to "undo" having added a 6 to it. This brings up the most important consideration with equations: No matter what kind of equation you're dealing with -- linear or otherwise -- whatever you do to the one side, you must do the exact same thing to the other side! Equations are like toddlers in this respect: You have to be totally, totally fair! Probably the best way to keep track of this subtraction of 6 from both sides is to format your work this way. What you see here is that I've subtracted 6 from both sides, drawn an "equals" bar underneath both sides, and added down: x plus nothing is x, 6 minus 6 is zero, and 3 plus 6 is 9. The solution is the last line of my work: x = 9. The same "undo" procedure works for subtraction. When you try to solve an equation, you are starting from the (unstated) assumption that there actually is a solution. When you end up with nonsense (like the nonsensical equation "4 = 5" above), this says that your initial assumption (that there was a solution) was wrong; in fact, there is no solution. Since the statement "4 = 5" is utterly false, and since there is no value of x that ever could make it true, then this equation has no solution.Advisory: This answer is entirely unlike the answer to the previous exercise, where there was a value of x that would work. Don't confuse these two very different situations: "the solution exists and has the value of zero" is not in any manner the same as "no solution value exists at all".The Arrhenius equation is a simple, but remarkably accurate, formula for the temperature dependence of the reaction rate constant, and therefore, rate of a chemical reaction. The equation was first proposed by the Dutch chemist J. H. van 't Hoff in 1884; five years later in 1889, the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius provided a physical justification and interpretation for it. Currently, it is best seen as an empirical relationship.[2] It can be used to model the temperaturevariance of diffusion coefficients, population of crystal vacancies, creep rates, and many other thermally-induced processes/reactions. The Eyring equation, developed in 1935, also expresses the relationship between rate and energy. A historically useful generalization supported by the Arrhenius equation is that, for many common chemical reactions at room temperature, the reaction rate doubles for every 10 degree Celsius increase in temperature The only difference is the energy units: the former form uses energy/mole, which is common in chemistry, while the latter form uses energy per molecule directly, which is common in physics. Read More About :- Multiplying Rational Numbers

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