Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 283
e, moved to the left, closing the port a andallowing the steam in A to expand. When the piston hasreached the end of its stroke, the valve has moved far enoughto allow steam from the chest to enter the port e and forcethe piston to the left, while the steam in A escapes througha, M, and E. 236.… … 9 h Fig. 182. Such a pressure-volume diagram, technically known as anindicator card, is shown in Fig. 182, in which ordinatesrepresent pressures, and the abscissas, volumes. EXPRESSION FOB THE EFFICIENCY. 273 The record of the succession of changes which went onwithin the cylinder is to be…
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