The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 53
ata: if the volume of a body of gas at freezing 38 ELEMENTARY THEORY OF THE HEAT ENGINE. [Chap. II. point to be taken as unity, the volume at boiling point, after heatingunder constant pressure, will be 1.366; and the law of variation is shownby the straight line AC, corresponding with Eq. (5). (d)… … Fig. 28. is measured. From the relations geometrically set forth in the figurewe can get a very good concept of the meaning of absolute temperature,according to the following line of reasoning: Let the temperature of melting ice, 32 deg. fahr., be taken as a naturaland obvious starting point for…
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