Snow, Benjamin Warner, 1860- · Madison, Wis. · leaf 317
on. There is anotherbeautiful result whichmay be obtainedf]*oni this diagram,owing to a remark-able property of therectangular hyper-bola. If from anypoint P on thiscurve, a tangent isdrawn. and alsofrom the same pointa p erp en di cul a r i slet fall upon one oftlie asymptotes, thefoot of the… … The elasticity of a gas is numericallyequal to the pressure. pE = Op. But pE represents the elasticity of the gas and Op the pressure..Therefore, in a gas which is compressed according to Boyleslaw, whereby the condition of the gas may be represented bya point upon an isothermal curve, the…
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