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Carnot heat engine

A Carnot heat engine (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}English: /kɑːrˈnoʊ/ kar-NOH, French: ) is a theoretical heat engine that operates on the Carnot cycle. The basic model for this engine…

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Carnot's aim: a general theory of engines

His reasoning

Carnot's diagram

Modern diagram

Carnot cycle

Carnot's theorem

Efficiency

Efficiency of real heat engines

The Carnot engine and Rudolf Diesel

As a macroscopic construct

A scientific revolution seems to invalidate Carnot's work

Rescuing Carnot's theory

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Carnot heat engine

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Carnot heat engine

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to go beyond the details of this or that engine.It is necessary to establish principles applicable not only to steam-engines but to all imaginable heat-engines.For historian of science John Dinstance ofa highly flammable liquid.To answer questions0.80text
Carnot heat enginerelated to As a macroscopic constructThe Carnot0.60section
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