...products when expanded, with production of work, in the bore of a gun supposed impervious to heat. X. WORK EFFECTED BY GUNPOWDER. The theoretic work which...represented by the area between the curve B, Plate 24, the ordinates corresponding to v and t>0, and the axis of abscissae. In mathematical language it...

...square. inch, and atmospheres. The authors call attention to the great utility of a table (XI) showing the theoretic work which a charge of gunpowder is capable of effecting in expanding to any value, v. The table given by them exhibits the theoretic work for all necessary...

...square inch, and atmospheres. The authors call attention to the great utility of a table (XI) showing the theoretic work which a charge of gunpowder is capable of effecting in expanding to any value, v. The table given by them exhibits the theoretic work for all necessary...

...without production of work. In both cases the powder is supposed to be perfectly dry. We have shownt that the theoretic work which a charge of gunpowder is capable of effecting in expanding to any volume v is expressed by the equation _ Por,,(l -«)(C, + /9X) cf— cr _ „ J...

...product* when expanded, teith production of work, in the bore of a gun supposed impervious to heat. (x) WORK EFFECTED BY GUNPOWDER. The theoretic work which...language, it is expressed by the definite integral I", p .dv (32) Eeplacing in this equation the value of p derived from Equation (30) we have for the...

...exploded in a perfectly closed cylinder, with the corresponding gravimetric densities. We have shown* that the theoretic work which a charge of gunpowder is capable of effecting in expanding to any volume (v) is expressed by the equation w _ fl."o(l-« And on account of its very...

...due to this cause will not be great." * Theoretical Work Effected by Gunpowder. — The theoretical work which a charge of gunpowder is capable of effecting during the expansion of its volume from ^ to any volume v is expressed by the definite integral W = f pdv; JvI * For table...