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Old Nov7-09, 06:33 PM                  #1
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Relative pressure & specific volume

Something seems funny in the Cengel & Boles Thermo text, 6th edition.

The entropy chapter defines relative pressure Pr = exp(s0/R), where s0 is the component of entropy due to temperature. But the values for Pr given in the ideal gas table for air (A-17) are 1/275.1 of those calculated from that definition.

It also defines relative specific volume vr=T/Pr, which would have units of kelvins, but the caption of the table claims that this is nondimensional like Pr.

Was gibt?

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