Talk:Heat capacity ratio
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What is the Cv value for Nickel, while the Cp is 460.6 J/Kg-K? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.205.16.185 (talk) 12:48, 30 May 2006
[edit] Merger proposal
Merger of Heat capacity ratio and Adiabatic index was proposed by Bryan Tong Minh on 11 January 2007.
- Agree -Myth (Talk) 10:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- Agree with the provision that the new article will mention that both the term heat capacity ratio and the term adiabatic ratio are similar. Mausy5043 13:15, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- Agree Finn Mainstone 14.56 GMT, 27th Feburary 2007
Merger completed. -- Myth (Talk) 06:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Table - what pressure were measurements taken at?
I am guessing that the tabulated values for the adiabatic index are at atmospheric pressure. If so, I think this should definitely be mentioned somewhere. Does anyone know? 84.12.252.210 15:16, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Title of article: "Heat capacity ratio" or "Adiabatic index"?
I strongly believe that the title of this article should be "Adiabatic index", not "Heat capacity ratio". I'm a student in physics, and I have frequently heard the term adiabatic index thrown around, but never heard heat capacity ratio before. As an objective gauge of the popularity of the terms, a Google search for "adiabatic index" gets 76,000 hits, while "heat capacity ratio" only gets 17,500. One thing that heat capacity ratio has going for it however, is that it is more descriptive. -- Apetre (talk) 02:53, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- In my own experience, the word that is most frequently used to describe this quantity is "Specific heat ratio". The term "Adiabatic index" is sometimes used when it is in the context of the more general "Polytropic index". I agree with Apetre that "Heat capacity ratio" is hardly used. Thunderbird2 (talk) 12:41, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
