Experimental Report 6

DETERMINATION OF SPECIFIC HEAT RATIO OF AIR

BASED ON CLEMENT DESORME’S METHOD
Student name: Nguyễn Hải Phong
Student ID: 20222797
Class: EE – E8 02 K67
Group: 05
Verification of the instructor
I. EXPERIMENT MOTIVATION
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- To determine the specific heat ratio γ = C for air.
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II. EXPERIMENT RESULTS

L1 = 410 (mm), L2 = 165 (mm), H = L1 – L2

H = 245 (mm)

Trial L1 (mm) L2 (mm) h = L2 – L1 (mm)

1 315 255 60
2 315 254 61
3 317 254 63
4 316 254 62
5 315 254 61
6 317 256 61
7 314 251 63
8 316 254 62
9 316 255 61
10 315 254 61
III. DATA PROCESSING
1. Calculation of the mean value of h:
10
1
h= ∑ h =6 1.5 ( mm )
10 i=1 i

2. Calculation of the uncertainty of h:

√∑
10
2
(hi−h)
s .d i=1
∆ h= = =0. 3(mm)
√10 10

Hence: h=6 1.5 ±0. 3(mm)

3. Calculation of the specific heat ratio γ

H
The formula: γ = H−h

H 245
γ= = =1.3 4
H−h 245−6 1.5

∆ γ =γ
√( h )
∆h 2
=1.3 4 ×
√( )
0. 3 2
6 1.5
≈ 0.0 1

Hence,
γ = 1.34 ± 0.01
IV.
COMPARISON AND CONCLUSION
Theoretically, we can calculate the specific heat ratio of air by using
i+ 2
the formula γ = i , where i = 5 which is the Degree of Freedom (DOF)

of ideal gas (in this case it is air). Hence, we get:

i+ 2 5+ 2
γ= = =1.40
i 5

The experiment result has a small difference from the

theoretical result due to instrumental uncertainty, observational
uncertainty and environment uncertainty.