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Definition of Bulk modulus
1. Noun. The ratio of the change in pressure acting on a volume to the fractional change in volume.
Medical Definition of Bulk modulus
1. modulus of volume elasticity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bulk Modulus
Literary usage of Bulk modulus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1890)
"THERMODYNAMIC TABLE A. Pressure equal in all directions—Ratio of Kinetic to Static
Bulk-Modulus. Temperature 15° C. (289° absolute) J=42400 centimetres. ..."
2. The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin (1898)
"Discarding terms in /2 and i3, we find directly &v . ff.M\ — =3*- (64) ion T» 11
i ,i TU , . 4.- hydrostatic pressure 130. bulk modulus. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"For if we represent Young's modulus by — , then the modulus of rigidity is
represented by 1 and the bulk modulus by 1 2 (a + b) * » (a-26) where b ..."
4. A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials: From by Isaac Todhunter (1893)
"(a) The first elastic problem is to find the bulk-modulus, ... We take the bulk-
modulus* to be the elastic-constant by which uniform pressure on the ..."
5. Smithsonian Physical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Thomas Gray (1896)
"... (or bulk modulus) in the manner indicated in the following equation : — where
E is Young's Modulus, n the rigidity modulus and k the bulk modulus. ..."
6. The Strength of Materials by James Alfred Ewing (1906)
"Modulus of Cubic Compressibility or bulk modulus. When three simple stresses of
equal intensity p and of the same sign (all pulls or all pushes) are applied ..."
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