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Lucke, Charles Edward

 
9780548669723: The Heat Engine Problem (1902)
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ISBN 10: 0548669724 ISBN 13: 9780548669723
Editorial: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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This is desirable because no comparisons can be justly drawn otherwise and it is, unfortunately, true that invariably in the past the best conditions of one system have beenv selected for comparison with some other system working under indifferent conditions. This may not have been done intentionally, in fact it appears that in many cases the comparison seemed perfectly just to the author but the results are almost valueless as bases of generalization for the purpose of reaching clear notions of comparative value. A commonly used mode of comparison considers different cycles working through the same temperature range whereas equal quantities of heat for each case will result in different temperature ranges and it is pretty clear that comparisons should be made on the basis of some initial conditions one of which is the heat supplied. A perfect gas will transform heat into work and considering the gas alone without reference to any engine the fraction of the heat that is transformed is dependent on the relation both in sequence and extent of the operations of heating, cooling, expansion and contraction in short is dependent on the cycle first and the extent of each cyclic phase secondly. It is first required to find out just how much heat energy will be transformed by each cycle and if other things are equal one should be the best for application to engines. But in this comparison we should consider not only which cycle transforms the largest amount of the heat energy supplied to it into work but also through just what range of pressures, volumes and temperatures these cycles must operate to produce the work This comparison will be purely mathematical and will, when completed, enable us to select the best cycle or best two cycles as the case may be, i.e.
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Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0548669724
ISBN 13 
9780548669723
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Número de páginas
232
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