# Work with equation involving different independent variables [closed]

Sometimes I will use an equation, for example, imagine the old chemistry ideal gas law, PV=nRT. Depending on the situation I may want to use different variables as the independent variable. So, for example, in the case of the ideal gas law there are 4 different possible independent variables.

What is a good way to manage this situation and set it up in Mathematica so I can easily compute any particular variable in terms of the others in a literate way?

## closed as unclear what you're asking by chuy, Feyre, corey979, yohbs, MarcoBJan 19 '17 at 19:21

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• V /. Solve[P V == n R T, V][[1]]? – Feyre Jan 19 '17 at 14:01
• @Feyre I know I can repetitively solve the same equation over and over again. I am hoping there is a more elegant solution. – Tyler Durden Jan 19 '17 at 14:26
• What kind of thing do you want? – Feyre Jan 19 '17 at 14:33
• It is not quite clear what you're asking. Please elaborate by a specific example. In the meanwhile I'm voting to close this question. – yohbs Jan 19 '17 at 16:18

ClearAll[gasLaw];

gasLaw[var_Symbol, opts : OptionsPattern[]] :=
Solve[P V == n R T, var, Reals,
FilterRules[{opts}, Options[Solve]]][[1]]

gasLaw[P]

(*  {P -> (n R T)/V}  *)

Flatten[gasLaw /@ Variables[Level[P V == n R T, {-1}]]]

(*  {n -> (P V)/(R T), P -> (n R T)/V, R -> (P V)/(n T), T -> (P V)/(n R),
V -> (n R T)/P}  *)


Do you mean something like this ?

var = n;
Solve[P V == n R T, var]