I've been looking through texts all week for this explaination (without getting into partial differentials).
Thanks for the pointer - I'll go home from work tonight a happy man.
I have an oilfield problem where I have trapped pressure between two concentric strings - the fluid is diesel. I need to calculate the pressure increase due to a 20 deg C increase in temperature.
I'm a bit rusty on equations of state and other thermodynamic principles but it should be easy for...