The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 57
lancing the pressure of the gas. * That is, the ratio of the decrement per degree to the initial volume. 40 ELEMENTARY THEORY OF THE HEAT ENGINE. [Chap. II. Since this curve must frequently be plotted, the most convenientconstruction for finding points upon it is given in Fig. 29. Having… … E F . V Fig. 29.—The Equilateral Hyperbola. from the origin 0 any radial line to cut these auxiliary axes at C and D,and completing the rectangle ADBC, we determine the point B of thecurve. For, in the similar triangles DOF, COE, DF or AE : CE or BF :: OF : OE, or pi : p ::v : vh which makes pv =…
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