Engines
Subtitle: An Introduction
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521644891
Subjects: Engineering thermodynamics; Engines & power transmission; Mechanics of fluids; Science/Mathematics; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Engineering - Mechanical; Technology / Engineering / Mechanical; Power Resources; Internal combustion engines
First sentence: A cycle is an idealization of what goes on in one of the devices that thermodynamicists call heat engines: that is, a gasoline or diesel engine, a jet engine, a steam engine, and so forth.