THE RELATIONS OF INTERNAL PRESSURE, VOL- 

 UME, AND TEMPERATURE OF AN ISOLATED 

 MASS OF PERFECT GAS OF UNIFORM TEMPERA- 

 TURE AND IN EQUILIBRIUM UNDER THE ACTION 

 OF ITS OWN FORCES.* 



Calvin M. Woodward. 



I. 



Given an indefinile sphere of gas at temperature T^, to find 

 the relation of p to r for any element, r being the distance 

 from the center of mass, and^ the pressure. 



Take for an element the gas inclosed between two con- 

 secutive concentric spheres and an indefinitely small cone 

 whose half-vertical angle is dd, and whose vertex is at 0, the 

 center of the spheres and the center of mass. 



,dr 



The volume of the element is irr'^dd'^dr, as seen in the 

 figure. If d be the density of the gas at the point, the mass 

 is 



irdrm^dr. 



The attraction between this element and the sphere, of 

 mass M, within the radius r, is 



JcMirdi-^dd'^dr 

 7^ ' 



* Presented in abstract to The Academy of Science of St. Louis, March 

 20, 1899. 



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