The treadle pump is based on a design developed in the nineteen seventies by Norwegian engineer Gunnar Barnes.

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So again, if you do a calculation where you're close enough to the ideal gas and you need to design your, if you have an engineer designing something that's got a bunch of gases around, this is a useful thing to use.

要研究近似理想气体的表现时,这个方程非常有用,下面再来看一个，对我们来说最有意思的,实际气体状态方程：,范德瓦尔斯方程。

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Now, if you're an engineer, and you use the ideal gas law to design a chemical plant or a boiler or an electrical plant, you know, a steam plant, you're going to be in big trouble.

比如说锅炉，蒸汽机,我们会遇到一个大问题：,我们设计的机器将无法运作，因为对大部分实际气体。

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