/sci/ - Science & Math

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Hey /sci/

I'm in the fifth and final problem of an assignment that's taken about ten hours to do, but this last one requires a program from what I can tell and I'm not sure what I'd be able to use.

What I'm being asked:

There's 0.750 mol of Helium at 100.00 K which is being compressed isothermally in a container of infinite volume. I'm supposed to find the volume by which the pressure given by the ideal gas law will deviate by >10% from the pressure given by the virial equation.

I'm given the first two virial equation constants and am supposed to assume that the second order expression is exact, so I don't have to mess around with an infinite series, but the only way I'd be able to compare values of P for the two different functions would be with a program and I'm not sure which.

Are there any free or widely available programs like Excel or something that can compare results from two different functions and compute deviations?

What mathematics should I be familiar with if I'm interested in studying classical mechanics at a deeper level than babby's first physics?

I've only taken the the basic calc 1-3 sequence and ODEs.

I'm just interested in seeing how different it is than my understanding from the general physics classes, but I'm not majoring/minoring in physics and won't be taking these types of courses.

experimental physics 1 homework:
1 (5 credits). calculate the frequency of a pendulum
2 (7 credits). calculate the acceleration of a yoyo
3 (5 credits). how many times does a wheel spin during deceletation
4 (50 credits). - calculate the pertubation of the riemann spacetime metric of a rotating charged black hole ... quadrupol gravitational waves... binary pulsar system ...
- by this calculate quantum fluctuation amplitude .... chromodynamic quarkoszillation in gluon field

professor is a cool guy

>mfw i took an "introductory" string theory course w/o a decent maths background