Treatise on intake systems

[James Weiler]

Oops my fault, I'm way out in left field.  Think I'll just shut up now.
jw

On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, James Boughton wrote:

> I think I covered myself on this with the reply to Wayne Strasser's
> comments, but to make sure g is actually gamma, the ratio of specific
> heats.  It is listed in numerous tables on properties of air.  If it is not
> listed the specific heats (constant pressure and constant volume) should
> be listed thus gamma can be calculated by the ratio of specific heat at
> constant pressure to specific heat at constant volume.
> 
> Jim Boughton
> boughton at bignet.net
> 
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> From: 	James Weiler[SMTP:james at brc.ubc.ca]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, August 12, 1997 7:54 PM
> To: 	diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: 	Re: Treatise on intake systems
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Aug 1997 wstrass at eastman.com wrote:
> 
> > (The speed of sound is simply (gRT)^0.5 where g and R are considered
> > constant.  If you wanted to be rigorous you could actually vary g and R
> > for temperature, but probably not worth it.)
> > 
> > Jim:  I have a question....how can g (is this gravitational constant?) and
> > R (the universal gas constant) vary with temperature?
> 
> n is the number of moles of gas.  Part of this formula comes from the 
> ideal gas law PV=nRT except he's using g instead of n.  R is a constant 
> and so there is no variation.
> 
> later
> jw
> 
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