 | Joseph William Richards - Furnaces - 1907 - 258 pages
...thus generated. This is allowed for in the well-known formula for adiabatic compression : in which f = the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to that at constant volume = 1.408. V0 = the volume of the uncompressed air. p0 = the tension of the uncompressed... | |
 | William Suddards Franklin, Chauncey M. Crawford, Barry MacNutt - Electricity - 1908 - 200 pages
...SPECIFIC HEATS OF AIR BY CLEMENT AND DESORMES' METHOD. The object of this experiment is to determine the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to its specific heat at constant volume. Theory. — The method of Clement and Desormes depends upon a knowledge of the behavior of a gas. When... | |
 | American Institute of Electrical Engineers - Electric engineering - 1908 - 926 pages
...pressure as 0.2375, the mechanical equivalent of heat as 778 ft-lb. From these values we obtain that for the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to that at constant volume, K = 1.40593. The initial temperature, Tl = 50° fahr. = 509.5° absolute.... | |
 | W. H. Dines - Meteorology - 1909 - 80 pages
...atmosphere. The equation connecting vertical decrease of temperature with increase in height is where j is the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to that at constant volume, being about 1'4 for dry air, g is the acceleration due to gravity, and R is... | |
 | Ralph S. Minor - 1910 - 160 pages
...AIR. Reference.—Duff, p. 264. The object of this experiment is to obtain the value of the ratio y of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to its specific heat at constant volume. The method employed is a modification of that used first by Clement and Desormes. A quantity of the gas,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1200 pages
...3, p. 238) he stated that he had succeeded in proving that the ratio in question must be the same as the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to the specific beat at constant volume. In the method of measuring the specific heat adopted by Delaroche... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1006 pages
...3, p. 238) he stated that he had succeeded in proving that the ratio in question must be the same as the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume. In the method of measuring the specific heat adopted by Delaroche... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1002 pages
...3, p. 238) he stated that he had succeeded in proving that the ratio in question must be the same as the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume. In the method of measuring the specific heat adopted by Delaroche... | |
 | Ralph Smith Minor - Physics - 1916 - 304 pages
...References.—Duff, p. 283; Edser, p. 321. The object of this experiment is to obtain the value of the ratio y of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to its specific heat at constant volume. The method employed is a modification of that used first by Clement and Desormes. A quantity of the gas,... | |
 | Alexander McAdie - Atmosphere, Upper - 1917 - 344 pages
...is 1366. CHAPTER IV THERMODYNAMICS OF THE ATMOSPHERE 14. The specific heat of air. The quantity k, the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume, is of much importance in connection with the cooling and heating... | |
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... the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume. 
