Reeve, Sidney A. (Sidney Armor), 1866-1941 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 289
etecting causes, recoursemust be had to the entropy-tem-perature diagram. The methodof doing this mathematically willbe explained on page 281. Inthe meantime let attention beturned to what happens within the cylinder. During the process of compression, which theoreticallypasses adiabatically from B… … Fig. 46 THE OTTO GAS-ENGINE 273 and entropy increase along cd. The heat supplied is suf-ficient to carry the explosive development of heat to D.While the process is in operation, however, the water-jacket steals some 35% to 50% of the total heat supplied, orthe area GdDH; the isomorphic development…
Thermodynamics · Heat-engines
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