The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 113
ssupposed to be fixed by initial xx. If it were made a function of x orof p, down the curve, the equation might be accommodated to the truelaw, but it would then be too complicated for convenient use. Exceptfor approximations of comparatively short range, the simple formulais not reliable. That the… … Cu. Ft. Fig. 51. -A. Constant quality. B. 15 5 V 10 ■ Adiabatie Curves for Wet Steam.Exact adiabatie. C. Adiabatie by Eq (94). (e) The Effect of Initial Condition upon the form of the adia-batie pressure-volume curve is shown by Fig. 51, which transfers tothis plane of representation the…
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