Elementary graphics and geometry of thermodynamics

✍ Scribed by Robert H. Thurston

• Book ID: 104115716
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1901
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 730 KB
• Volume: 151
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(01)90176-0

✦ Synopsis

Diagrams of Energy represent the method of variation of energy and of work in any system in which such variation occurs as a function of quantities of which the varying magnitudes may be represented graphically. These magnitudes are exhibited on such diagrams by the eo6rdinates of points representing the condition of the substances, and their variations, by lines which are the loci of successive positions of those points.

Thermodynamic Diagrams exhibit the varying thermal states of a working substance, and the mechanical effect of thermal changes when heat-energy and mechanical energy are converted, the one into the other. In such diagrams, the co6rdinates usually, but not necessarily, measure pres. sures and volumes of the working fluid. *Specific volume is the volume of unity of weight. VoL. CLI. No. 9o[.