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Heat and Thermodynamics
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Heat and Thermodynamics

by Anandamoy Manna
May 2011
Beginner
492 pages
14h 16m
English
Pearson India
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9.9 Conversion of Real Gas Thermometer Scale to Perfect Gas Thermometer Scale or Absolute Thermodynamic Scale

No real gas obeys the equation of state of a perfect gas

 

pv = RT

 

But, any real gas approaches the perfect gas in the limit when the pressure of the gas is infinitesimally small. Accordingly to translate the readings of a real gas scale (such as the hydrogen scale), they are to be extrapolated to the limit of vanishingly small pressures. This is done as follows:

For a real gas, we can use the following equation of state:

 

pv = A + Bp + Cp2 +…       (9.14)

 

where the constants A, B, C, …. are functions of temperature.

Taking the constant volume at 0°C equal to vo, Eq. 9.14 for a constant volume thermometer with volume maintained ...

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