and rejecting the remaining heat to the cold reservoir. The thermodynamic cycle followed by the engine is known as the Carnot cycle. In an ideal case, this process would be perfectly reversible ...

THE caloric theory of heat as developed by Carnot in his famous “Reflexions on the Motive Power of Heat” (Paris, 1824) leads immediately to the correct solution of the relations between heat ...

The chapter on heat engines seems to me to be exceptionally ... and using merely a perfect gas Carnot cycle as standard. An exceedingly pleasing feature is the section on the Otto cycle gas ...

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