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Occasional Poetry - 46. Thunder and The Universal Gas Constant
u>Warnings for technical language and equations. Universal Gas Constant is dedicated to Adi, whose challenge it was to conceive it, and who deserves my thanks for making me try. All errors of any sort or description are mine, of course.
Thunder
You hear the thunder rumble far,
despite the distance, it may jar
the listener to think it wise
to close the windows in the car.
For thunder is not seen with eyes,
but still we know it's not some guys
in heaven dropping bowling balls,
but lightning's pulse that heats the skies.
As charges flash celestial halls,
the air surrounding so appalls
with thirty thousand kelvins* plus;
a jolt the nearest cloud befalls.
The fire expands the air, and thus
a rapid shockwave makes a fuss;
with your embraces on a par,
which in our chamber, we'll discuss.
Universal Gas Constant
A mole of gas may be ideal,
at least, that's how the chemists feel,
but energy and heat relate
in ways that laymen think surreal.
Now pressured volume will create
some form of energy elate
in Kelvin's oft-discussed degrees,
times moles and sums commensurate.
This constant number, if you please,
is universal, to appease
a host of different units used
in PV = nRT's.
Your face appears a mite confused,
In this you might be well excused,
for if a torrid kiss I steal,
just how much pressure is suffused?
div>*Kelvins refers to degrees Kelvin, the temperature scale which begins at absolute zero. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin for more information.
In the poem, pronounce the letters and symbols exactly as written. P is pressure, V is volume, n is the number of moles of a gas, T is the temperature in degrees Kelvin, and R is the Universal Gas Constant, the subject of the poem. You can find out more about the Universal Gas Constant here http://ch301.cm.utexas.edu/gases/ideal-gas-law/idealgaslaw-all.php, or here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_constant .
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