J. Alfred Ewing

The Steam-Engine and Other Heat-Engines

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1926, was written 'to present the subject of heat-engines, in their mechanical as well as their thermodynamical aspects'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1074g
• ISBN-13: 9781107615632
• ISBN-10: 1107615631
• Artikelnr.: 39532083

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The early history of the steam-engine
2. Elementary theory of heat-engines
3. Properties of steam and elementary theory of the steam-engine
4. Further points in the theory of heat-engines
5. Entropy
6. Reversal of the heat-engine: mechanical refrigeration
7. Actual behaviour of steam in the cylinder
8. Steam turbines
9. The testing of heat-engines
10. Compound expansion
11. Valves and valve-gears
12. Governing
13. Dynamics of the reciprocating engine
14. The formation of steam
15. Forms of the steam engine
16. Air engines
17. Gas-engines and oil-engines
Appendix. Tables of the properties of steam
Index.