Rankine, William John Macquorn, 1820-1872, Millar, William J, Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 · London, C. Griffin and company · leaf 499
the air, instead of varying inversely as thevolume simply, varies inversely as that power of the volume whoseindex is l-408, while the absolute temperature varies inverselyas that power of the volume whose index is 0408. In Fig. 2 (asin the former figure) let volumes in cubic feet be represented… … Fit absolute pressure, E D the original volume. of the air, and 0 F theincreased pressure at the end of the compression. Then, if the tempera-ture were kept uniform, the compression curve of the diagram woidd be acommon hyperbola DA, such that OF xFA= OE x ED. But the THE SECOND LAW OF…
