Sunday, January 6, 2013

Steam Tables: Vapor, Liquid and Solid Relations (Preface)

Welcome to "Altered Book Pages" blog! Here, I'll post my works and doodling on old book pages.
 

The first post is from "Steam Tables: Vapor, Liquid and Solid Relations." I used physics and mathematical information to develop a theory on relationships. Following the order of a book from the face page, content, preface, chapter I, II and III and appendix and so forth, I created a number of different levels of narratives in this work. Texts on the bottom of each page flow from page to page, while the imagery of fluids spill over, leak into and cut through to create another level of narratives.  Texts and altered images from two books, "The Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Compressible Fluid Flow" (1953) and "Mathematical Theory of Elasticity" (1946), are combined onto pages from "Steam Tables" (1969). It is best to see the whole work as an installation.

Below: texts from one of these pages. Images are at the bottom. Here, I'll post the first four pages.



a relief map of the flow field in which the vertical elevation is

                                                                               Measurement of work
                                                                                        from condition 1 to condition 2

                                                                        the heat “received” by Q,
w=pAc

a more or less
            Work.
                                                                                                   WORK RECEIVED.
                                                between two
                                                                           100°F,                                  may be computed
                                                                                    the amount of heat rejected by
            =0.
                                                                              the shock becomes vanishingly small.

                                                            Superposition (a) and (b),
                                                                        RECOGNITION OF WORK
P2-P1=                                                                            (that is, div F=Ñ2j=0).
                                                F=Ñj

            forces are prescribed
P2 is
                        a perpetual motion machine
                                                The machine experiences different histories.

between two heat reservoirs
                        throat and test section.

                                    EQUALITY OF TEMPERATURE

            EQUAL-TEMPERATURE PROCESS.                         it is useless to speak of such things

                                                                                                                                    p=p(x,y, z)


(107)
TEMPERATURE.  The concept of inequality

























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