Object — Device that converts heat into work by operating on a cycle.
Present in chapters
12
Linked atoms
35 linked atoms.
10 Irreversible transformations and energy balance
11 Entropy
- Entropy in an irreversible cycle
- Worked exercise — maximum work from cooling coffee
- Cooled iron: maximum work
- The reversible cooling of coffee
- Engine with a single reservoir
- Carnot engine: ΔS of the universe
12 Cycles and heat engines
- What is a heat engine
- Worked exercise — simplified Carnot cycle
- The named cycles
- Problem — Balances of a cycle
- Problem — Carnot compared with other cycles
- Problem — Monatomic Carnot cycle (400–250 K)
- Problem — Carnot cycle in the T–S plane
- Problem — Sketching a Carnot cycle (engine and refrigerator)
- Problem — Entropy in a Carnot cycle
- Problem — Useful work for 1000 J absorbed
- Problem — Stirling engine
- Problem — Realistic petrol engine (Otto vs. Carnot)
- Problem — Why engines run at high temperature
- Problem — Power of a coal-fired power plant
- Problem — Ranking four Carnot engines
- Problem — Ranking four Carnot engines (2)
- Problem — Ranking three Carnot engines
- Problem — Efficiency from exchanged heats (800–600 J)
- Problem — Efficiency of the Brayton cycle
- Problem — Efficiency of the Diesel cycle
- Problem — Efficiency of the Otto cycle
- Problem — Efficiency of a real engine (4000–3000 J)
- Problem — Carnot efficiency and work (500–300 K)
- Problem — Maximum Carnot efficiency (500–300 K)
- Problem — Minimum temperature of a power plant
- Problem — An engine that is too efficient
- Problem — True or false about engines and refrigerators
- Properties of a cycle