The internal combustion engine; a text-book for the use of students and engineers (1915)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 41
iciency.—So far as the first law is concernedthere is nothing to show why all the heat supplied to an engineshould not be converted into work. But the effect of thesecond law is that only a portion of the heat supplied can beconverted into work, and, as stated in par. 16, the ratio Heat converted… … V0 Volume ]/, Fig. 5.—PV diagram. 33. Application of Graphical Methods to Thermo-dynamics;Pressure-Volume and Temperature-Entropy Diagrams.—The reader is probably familiar with graphical methods as appliedto physical problems. In many such cases it is customary todeal with three physical quantities…
Internal combustion engines
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