YAM (Yet Another Mistake):
I wrote:
Consider Charles’ Law for an Ideal Gas
should read:
Consider Amontons' Law for an Ideal Gas
(named after Guillaume Amontons)
Mark Jurich
From: Mark Jurich
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 8:37 AM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: [Vo]:Re: Dogbone BANG Geiger Counter Spiked
I wrote:
Now let’s increase the Temperature from 273 K to 1273 K (increase of > 4.6
times)
should read:
Now let’s increase the Temperature from 300 K to 1273 K (increase of > 4.2
times)
300 K is roughly Room Temperature.
Mark Jurich
From: Mark Jurich
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 8:19 AM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Dogbone BANG Geiger Counter Spiked
It is my opinion that the Pressure Transducer was not working during this run,
at all. Consider Charles’ Law for an Ideal Gas ( Pressure proportional to
Temperature). In other words, P = kT, where k is some arbitrary constant (Yes,
you can start with the Ideal Gas Law, PV = nRT if you want to.). Now let’s
increase the Temperature from 273 K to 1273 K (increase of > 4.6 times) ...
Where was the pressure increase of 4.6 times during the run? Was the vessel
evacuated before the run? ... I don’t think it was. If it was, what was the
vacuum reading attained during evacuation? I didn’t see any data that
reflected that.
... In a previous run, we did see a Pressure Transducer that seemed to be
“alive”, albeit a bit noisy...
... Just some thoughts.
Mark Jurich
From: James Bowery
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 7:32 AM
To: vortex-l
Subject: [Vo]:Dogbone BANG Geiger Counter Spiked
Watch the Dogbone BANG run in HD to see these data points.
Geiger counter readings:
6:14:13, 8e-6
6:16:46, 9e-6
6:17:15, 3.3e-4
a few seconds later BANG
The pressure went down initially from 0.7 to 0.5 the back up to 0.9 but at no
point did the "PSI" exceed 1.0 so if that was measuring the build up of gas
pressure energy, there wasn't enough to do anything like what we saw. It might
have been a rapid conflagration of LiH coming in contact with atmospheric O2 if
there was a breach just prior to the BANG but there was no indication of such a
breach that I could see.
