Place a small piece of tissue
paper in the tube. Dim the room lights. Quickly
force the plunger down. This rapidly compressed air
should heat up enough to ignite the paper.
NOTES
For adiabatic compression of gas,
Tf = To (Vo/Vf)(γ-1).
The volume typically decreases by a factor of about 15.
For nitrogen and oxygen, γ = cp/cv = 1.4.
To= 300 K. Tf = 300*(15)0.4 =
890 K. The ignition temperature of paper is 506 K.
