PIRA 4B70.00 ADIABATIC PROCESSES

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4B70.00Adiabatic Processes
4B70.10fire syringePIRA 500
4B70.10light the cotton4B70.10Put a small piece of cotton in a glass tube and push down on the piston to light it.
4B70.10light the cottonH-179A piece of cotton in a glass tube will ignite when a plunger is used to quickly compress the air.
4B70.10fire syringeH-5cThree fire syringes are shown.
4B70.10fire syringeDisc 15-05Compress air in a glass tube to light a tuft of cotton. Slow motion photography.
4B70.11match lighterHe-5A match head placed in a cylinder lights when a tight fitting piston is quickly compressed.
4B70.11light a match head27-6.1Push down hard on a piston in a close fitting tube to light a match head at the bottom.
4B70.20expansion cloud chamberPIRA 500
4B70.20expansion cloud chamber4B70.20Pressurize a jug of saturated water vapor with and without smoke particles.
4B70.20expansion chamberHl-8A 1 L flask is fitted with a rubber bulb and a inlet for smoke.
4B70.20expansion cloud chamberH-89Introduce smoke into a flask attached to a squeeze bulb through a pitchcock.
4B70.21expansion cloud chamberH-88Put some smoke and alcohol in a stoppered flask and shake. When the stopper is released a fog forms.
4B70.25pop the cork coolingPIRA 1000
4B70.25big expansion cloud chamber4B70.25
4B70.25cloud chambersM-22b.2Pump a one gallon jug with a bicycle pump until the cork pops out.
4B70.25adiabatic coolingDisc 15-04Pressurize a one gallon jar with a bicycle pump until the cork blows. Measure the temperature with a thermistor and computer.
4B70.26adiabatic decompressionAJP 58(11),1112A laser beam is temporarily scattered when an air filled chamber is pumped down with a vacuum pump.
4B70.30adiabatic heating and coolingHe-6An air cylinder moves a piston back and forth and a thermocouple measures the temperature.
4B70.31adiabatic compressionH-180A thermopile. is constructed and put in the bottom of a tube in which air is compressed by a plunger. Instructions.
4B70.35expansion chamberH-181Directions for making a temperature detector to insert into a flask that will be warmed and cooled by compression and expansion.
4B70.36measuring adiabatic compression27-6.2Temperatures of fixed amounts of gases undergoing adiabatic compression are measured. Diagram, Picture, construction hints.
4B70.37adiabatic cycles27-6.3A thermocouple connected to a lecture galvanometer shows temperature cycles as air in a test tube is compressed and expanded.
4B70.40Joule-Kelvin coefficients27-6.4A thermocouple measures the temperature change as N2 cools on expansion and H2 heats on expansion.

ReferenceDescription
M-1Sutton
Ma-1Freier & Anderson
M-1dHilton
8-2.8Meiners
1A12.01University of Minnesota Handbook
AJP 52(1),85American Journal of Physics
TPT 15(5),300The Physics Teacher
Disc 01-01The Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations

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