Now, the most interesting one for our class the equation of state that's the most interesting, is the Van der Waals equation of state, developed by Mr. Van der Waals in 1873.

由范德瓦尔斯在1873年发展起来,这个方程的美妙之处，在于它只需要两个参数，下面我们来研究一下。

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Let's build this up. Let's see where this comes from, where these parameters a and b comes from. So, the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take our gas in our box, let's build a box full of gases here.

参数a和b有什么含义,首先，假设研究的气体,都在一个容器里,容器里充满了气体,这些是气体分子。

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