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 42
o V^ Proof.— Area of shaded strip = P. AV, which is work doneby pressure in increasing volume by AV. Therefore totalwork done = 2P. AV for all such strips (or in calculus nota-tion, I P.tfV) which is the area under the curve. It is this principle that enables the work done by an engineto be… … fy0 Entropy <^ Fig. 6.—T0 diagram. curve to show, not work done, but heat units supplied to thegas. The question arises, what, in this case, is to be plottedalong the X axis ? The answer to this question is that thequantity to be plotted along the X axis is not one like pressureand volume with…
Internal combustion engines
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