The Carnot cycle assumes a piston filled with an ideal gas. The gas inside this piston cannot go in and out, heat is transferred only to the bottom part, and the flywheel is attached to the top.

326) as a standard of comparison for steam engine performance can be shown quite readily on a temperature-entropy chart, and thus be directly compared with the Carnot cycle and also with the ...

IN a paper on Carnot's Cycle and the Efficiency of Heat Engines, reported in NATURE, August 29, Dr. J. S. Haldane comes to the astonishing conclusion that “the Carnot cycle is radically in ...