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The internal combustion engine
The educational resource shows an interactive animation about the internal combustion engine: in real combustion engines, the energy is extracted from the combustion of some type of fuel, which has been injected into a cylinder, finely pulverised and mixed with oxygen. Then the combustible mixture is compressed and ignited to explode. That is why these engines are known as combustion engines.
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Carnot´s ideal engine
The educational resource shows an interactive animation about the Carnot's engine: it is a theoretical model, not a real one, but we can already see in it the fundamental characteristics of real heat engines.The system is based on the phenomena of the expansion and contraction of gases through heat gain and loss.
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Heat engines and machines
In this teaching unit you will learn: To understand the concept of a simple machine as an instrument which saves effort but not work. To understand the way in which energy from wind or water is converted into the mechanical energy of a circular movement. To assimilate the equivalence between mechanical energy and heat. To formulate the first and second law of thermodynamics in a simple way. To learn to use the mathematical formulae for these laws to make simple predictions about the working...
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