If you have an isobaric you're going to have to calculate where the energy changes, and that's a calculation that's likely on the homework and very like on an exam as well, too.

在等压过程中,我们需要计算能量的变化，我们在作业,和考试中,就会遇到这类问题。

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If we want to know the total heat added to the system, we can measure it, which is the straightforward thing, but sometimes you want to calculate in advance, or sometimes you want to calculate it on an exam.

如果想知道给系统的总热量，我们可以测量，这是很直接的事情，但有时候我们想事先计算它，或者需要在考试中计算。

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You figure that most of those boxes are being eaten by somebody or another, there's some waste that you might calculate in, but there--error gets introduced there trying to estimate that, so you get a number on that.

你的计算中大部分食品,都被人们吃了,浪费的那些也要计算进来,但其中的误差,也要估算出来,最后得出一个数字

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