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Old October 31st, 2014, 07:36 AM   #7
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It's not perfect, but treating the air like an ideal gas and assuming isothermal compression (not really reasonable assumptions, but probably enough to get you to within a few percent), the ratio of compressed to uncompressed pressures does give the compression ratio.
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