 | Daniel Kinnear Clark - Engineering - 1878 - 1022 pages
...heat absorbed at constant pressure, Is to the proportion of heat absorbed at constant volume, So is the specific heat at constant pressure To the specific heat at constant volume. For example, the specific heat of air at constant pressure and with increasing volume has been observed... | |
 | Thomas Minchin Goodeve - Steam - 1879 - 364 pages
...elasticities in the case of air, as deduced from experiments on the velocity of sound, is 1-408, which is also the ratio of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume.' 50. It may here be useful to point out one or two applications of the formulae obtained. Let a mass... | |
 | Charles Ernest Ledoux - Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery - 1879 - 188 pages
...performance is represented by and we have _Q _A Q TTT TTT —A. s\ A QQ.-Q We have also c B k is the ratio of specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume; this ratio is =1.41 and is the same for all permanent gases. It follows then OT — T A ** _ -*-°... | |
 | Charles Bird (B.A., F.R.A.S.) - 1880 - 206 pages
...double refraction, and assign the conditions necessary to render the polarization complete. 379. From the ratio of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume the "mechanical equivalent" of heat may be determined. Explain the principles of the calculation and,... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait - Engineering - 1881 - 638 pages
...of the subtangent of an isothermal curve to that of a curve of no transmission at the same point, or of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume. This is a geometrical proof of Laplace's law for all possible fluids. The same law is deduced from... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1883 - 896 pages
...resistance. ( Carl. Repn p. 563 ; J. Phys., April, II, I, p. 197.) 4. Specific Heat. Strecker has determined the ratio of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume, of chlorine, bromine, and iodine, all in the condition of gas, by comparing by Kuudt's method the wave... | |
 | Benjamin Williamson, Francis Alexander Tarleton - Dynamics - 1885 - 486 pages
...final temperaJTj /t>i\*-' ture and volume, TI and t'2, by the equation -"• = I — I , where k is the ratio of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume. The transformation of the gas in this case is said to be adiabatic. 9. In the preceding example determine... | |
 | Benjamin Williamson, Francis Alexander Tarleton - Dynamics - 1885 - 480 pages
...lvi\ki ture and volume, TZ and vi, by the equation — ' = f — ) , where k is the ratio -ti \fl2/ of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume. The transformation of the gas in this case is said to be adiabatic. 9. In the preceding example determine... | |
 | Engineering - 1879 - 542 pages
...represented by , Q and we have Q.-Q Q . Q — =S7~=A We have also Q.-Q *c(T.-T.) R k is the ratio of specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume; this ratio is =1.41 and is the same for all permanent gases. It follows then Q i=A /r TT. If the compression... | |
 | Sydney Young - Physics - 1887 - 90 pages
...determined the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat. Calculate the specific heat of air at constant volume, and the ratio of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume, from the following data : — Specific heat at constant pressure=0-237. Specific gravity of mercury... | |
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B with the sound velocity where y is the ratio of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume, and p is the gas pressure. 
