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" ... the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume. "
Examination Papers for Science Schools and Classes - Page 36
by Great Britain. Education Department. Department of Science and Art - 1869
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

Science - 1853 - 478 pages
...(T-0)(rl)MKv (I) In which T is the temperature of the air in the working cylinder, 6, that of the weather, y, the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to that at constant volume, M the mass of air heated ; and Kv, the symbol employed by Mr. Rankine to express...
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Cambridge Mathematical Journal, Volume 8

Duncan Farquharson Gregory, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Norman Macleod Ferrers - Mathematics - 1853 - 308 pages
...compression ; and let P, V, and T be what they become when the compression is concluded. Then if k denote the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to the specific heat of air kept in a space of constant volume, and if, as appears to be nearly, if not...
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Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of ...

John Tyndall - Music - 1867 - 364 pages
...sound in atmospheric air. We found Laplace, by a special assumption, deducing from these velocities the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure, to its specific heat at constant volume. We found Mayer calculating from this ratio the mechanical equivalent of heat; finally, we found Mr....
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Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of ...

John Tyndall - Sound - 1867 - 372 pages
...sound in atmospheric air. We found Laplace, by a special assumption, deducing from these velocities the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure, to its specific heat at constant volume. We found Mayer calculating from this ratio the mechanical equivalent of heat ; finally, we found Mr....
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A Treatise on the Steam-engine in Its Various Applications to Mines, Mills ...

John Bourne (C. E.) - Steam engineering - 1868 - 602 pages
...and V the temperature from absolute zero, pressure, and volume of air after compression ; and k is the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to that at constant volume. Professor W. Thomson has deduced, as a consequence of the above, the following...
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The Elements of Acoustics, Light, and Heat

John Charles Buckmaster - Heat - 1871 - 210 pages
...tuning-fork by nodes been determined ? In what order do the higher rates of vibration of a tuning-fork follow each other ? r. From the ratio of the specific...mechanical equivalent of heat. How will you do it ? ?. Sketch an experimental arrangement by which you would illustrate to a class the absorption of...
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Numerical examples in heat

Richard Evans Day - Heat - 1875 - 66 pages
...the mechanical equivalent of heat as 1,390 foot-pounds? (31.) Determine from the following experiment the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to that of air at constant volume, and deduce from this ratio the mechanical equivalent of heat : A definite...
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An Elementary Treatise on Heat

William Garnett - Heat - 1876 - 180 pages
...air at constant volume is therefore 1-1724x64 „ —j^—;— = 1667... 90 xo From this we see that the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to its specific heat at constant volume is ' .'" = 1-42... According to the best experiments the value of this ratio for air and other permanent...
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A Treatise on Hydromechanics

William Henry Besant - Fluid mechanics - 1877 - 352 pages
...elastic, or less elastic, in a greater degree than is given by Boyle's law. Taking /3 to represent the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume, If then a small portion of fluid, the density of which is pv...
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An Elementary Treatise on Heat

William Garnett - Chemistry - 1878 - 236 pages
...and the specific heat of air at constant volume is therefore 11724 x 64 90x5 From this we see that the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to its specific heat at constant •237 volume is — -*-'-- = T42... According to the best experiments the value of this ratio for...
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