OceanObsessed
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It certainly has to do with vapor pressure of water.PanamaMike:I think the vapor the pressure of water is irrelevant in
the process.
Regards,
--Mike
I am not sure what part of my original comment you are disagreeing with. It sounds to me that we are saying the exact same thing but simply explaining it differently.bobbates:That is almost correct.
The only thing that I would disagree with is that the relationship between the pressure and temperature in this case are related via the Ideal Gas Law (PV = nRT) not the Integrated Gas Law (I know that is what you meant to say Bob ) and the pressure and temperature are directly (not inversely) proportional to each other. You can play with the variables in the equation PV=nRT to determine the inverse and direct relationships.
Of course there are assumtions that the water is behaving as an ideal gas. Many of the gas/fluid dynamic equations are the same they just use different densities to represent the gas or fluid. I would be interested in hearing more about what Nemrod said about there being controversy with the origin of cavitation. This certainly seems to be a contoversial thread .