 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1861 - 604 pages
...particles at all, the vil viva of rotation will be equal to that of translation. This relation would make the ratio of specific heat at constant pressure to that at constant volume to be l-33, whereas we know that for air it is 1*408. This result of the dynamical theory, being at... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1861 - 602 pages
...particles at all, the ri» viva of rotation will be equal to that of translation. This relation would make the ratio of specific heat at constant pressure to that at constant volume to be 1'33, whereas we know that for air it is 1408. This result of the dynamical theory, being at... | |
 | Robert Röntgen - Heat-engines - 1880 - 684 pages
...cycle process. Cf = weight of a given volume of gas. J = disgregation work in a heated body. k = — = ratio of specific heat at constant pressure to that at constant volume. Cv For air = 1.41. L — outer work performed by expanding body. m, n, = co-efficients of pressure... | |
 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1884 - 528 pages
...conclusions as to the forms of various molecules, from determinations (chiefly those made by Strecker) of the ratio of specific heat at constant pressure to that at constant volume. can be traced between the total value of ( V) and the partial values assigned to the various atoms in any... | |
 | Ira Remsen, Charles August Rouillu - Chemistry - 1895 - 830 pages
...been prepared by help of magnesium. It showed no trace of nitrogen when examined in a vacuum-tube. XIV. Ratio of Specific Heats. In order to decide regarding...velocity, e the isothermal elasticity, d the density, (i+or/) the temperature correction, C^ the specific heat at constant pressure, and C» that at constant... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Science - 1895 - 590 pages
...experiments upon this branch of the subject were left entirely in Professor Ramsay 's hands, VOL. LV1I. X ratio of specific heat at constant pressure to that...by means of the equation when n is the frequency, X the wave-length of sound, v its velocity, e the isothermal elasticity, d the density, (l + a#) the... | |
 | Charles Henry Benjamin - Steam - 1898 - 72 pages
...external work -c -u kT,-kT2 But H=o by assumption C -4-1: P Wy 1 "• ^--D and n= -_-— = ' This is tne ratio of specific heat at constant pressure to that at constant volume, and may be denoted by r. Its value is as follows : — Dry A1r 1.408 Saturated Air 1.2 Superheated... | |
 | Charles Henry Benjamin - Steam - 1905 - 156 pages
...pound of gas. But H = o by assumption (adiabatic) rk U~n-1_u . Cy+k Cp . and n =— =— ? This is the ratio of specific heat at constant pressure to that at constant volume, and may be denoted by r. Its value is as follows : Dry Air 1 .405 Saturated Ajir 1.2 Superheated Steam... | |
 | Charles Henry Benjamin - Steam-engines - 1909 - 336 pages
...expansion equals *-*—* — ' . Equating these two expressions and substituting kTior pv, This is the ratio of specific heat at constant pressure to that at constant volume, and may be denoted by r. Its value is as follows : Dry air .............................. 1.405 Saturated... | |
 | Thomas Percy Hilditch - Chemistry - 1911 - 290 pages
...determined from the densities, for Ramsay found by the method of Kundt and Warburg (cf. p. 189), that the ratio of specific heat at constant pressure -to that at constant volume was about r6o in all cases, the gases being accordingly monatomic. The spectra, boiling-points, melting-points,... | |
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It will be remembered that, from the velocity of sound in a gas, the ratio of specific heat at constant pressure to that at constant volume can be deduced by means of the equation when n is the frequency, A. 
