 | John Clayton Hoyt, Nathan Clifford Grover - 1912 - 218 pages
...can be found readily as follows: The equation of a straight line is of the form y=ax+b (1) where a is the slope of the line and b is the intercept on the Y axis, ie when x=Q, y=b. So, by measuring the slope (the tangent of the angle made with the X axis) and the... | |
 | John Clayton Hoyt, Nathan Clifford Grover - 1916 - 264 pages
...can be found readily as follows: The equation of a straight line is of the form y=ax+b (1) where a is the slope of the line and b is the intercept on the Faxis, ie when z=0, y=b. So, by measuring the slope (the tangent of the angle made with the X axis)... | |
 | William Neville Rose - 1920 - 542 pages
...which the graph is plotted. In general, if the equation to a straight line is written, y = ax+b; a is the slope of the line and b is the intercept on the vertical axis through the zero of the horizontal scale. All equations of the first degree can be put... | |
 | Ernest William Schoder, Francis Murray Dawson - 1927 - 398 pages
...be found readily as follows: The equation of a straight line is of the form y = ax + b (A) where o is the slope of the line and b is the intercept on the Yaxis, ie, when x = 0, y = b. So, by measuring the slope (the tangent of the angle made with the ^Y-axis)... | |
 | William Neville Rose - 1928 - 552 pages
...which the graph is plotted. In general, if the equation to a straight line is written, y = ax+b ; a Is the slope of the line and b is the Intercept on the vertical axis through the zero of the horizontal scale. All equations of the first degree can be put... | |
 | Billy H. Kornegay, Keith J. Kornegay, Evelyn Torres, AWWA Research Foundation - 2000 - 170 pages
...dependent variable and x is the independent variable. The "m" and "b" in the equation are constants, where "m" is the slope of the line and "b" is the intercept of the line on the vertical or y-axis. The linear regression established for TOC and UV254 absorbance... | |
 | Bela G. Liptak - 2003 - 1920 pages
...with a straight line, represented by the equation y = mx + b. where y is the output, x is the input, m is the slope of the line, and b is the intercept. The calibration of an instrument may change due to a change in zero, a change in span, or a change... | |
 | Darrel B. Hoff, Jeffrey A. Wilkerson - 2004 - 298 pages
...axis divided by the change on the horizontal axis. The general equation of a line is y = mx + b, where m is the slope of the line and b is the intercept. An example of linearly related data is shown in Figure A2-3. When plotting data, y in the general line... | |
 | Princeton Review (Firm) - 2004 - 256 pages
...Remember the linear equation formula y = mx + b, where x and / are the variables in an ordered pair, m is the slope of the line, and b is the /-intercept. The landscaping company's formula is written in the exact same format, except that it substitutes 6... | |
 | John Semmlow - 2005 - 462 pages
...equivalent resistance of an element. Recall that the equation for a straight line is y = mx + b, where m is the slope of the line and b is the intercept. From Ohm's law, v = Ri, so the voltage-current relationship for all resistors will plot as straight... | |
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From calibration of a neutron probe we know that when a soil's volumetric wetness is 1 5% we get a reading of 24,000 cpm (counts per minute), and at a wetness of 40% we get 44,000 cpm. Find the equation of the straight line defining the calibration curve... 
