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- From: barber@ad.enet.dec.com (ANDREW BARBER)
- Subject: Re: FAQ? (questions about engines)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.171431.25965@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: barber@ad.enet.dec.com (ANDREW BARBER)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:14:31 GMT
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- |>I don't think the laws of thermodynamics can be violated! Nitro gives you
- |>more power thru more heat per power stroke. Have you measured the
- |>head temperature of an engine running more nitro??? I'd bet a big dinner
- |>on this one.
- |>
- |>
- The extra heat you get is just energy you can't use. The ideal engine doesn't
- get hot. The exhaust should be cold. This way, all energy is mechanical and none is used to heat up the exhaust gases.
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- |> To demonstrate: Place a 17 caliber steel shot on an asbestos sheet
- |> (observing all relevant OSHA, NIH, FBI and FDA precautions) next to a
- |> sixteen pound steel shotput. Apply an equal amount of heat to both
- |> masses by heating for three seconds with a blowtorch. Immediately pick
- |> up the two shots. The one with the smaller mass will cause smoke to be
- |> emitted from your fingers, indicating high temperature. The big mass will
- |> still seem to feel quite comfortable to you. Same thing happens in the
- |> engine -- the smaller mass of the glow element will get hotter than the
- |> larger mass. Hot plugs use skinny wires.
- |>
- |> Now, bandage your fingers and we'll move on to the heat capacity experi-
- |> ment. Heat both masses to the same temperature. For engineering purposes,
- |> they'll be at the same temperature when they're both cherry red (do the big
- |> one first). Now, apply an equal amount of coolant to each mass (spit on 'em).
- |> and pick both of them up. The one that we have classified as "hot" didn't
- |> cause the same reaction as it did in the first experiment. Smoke is now
- |> being emitted from your other hand... This is "heat capacity", the bigger
- |> mass is slower to heat up and slower to loose it's energy. Cold plugs use
- |> fat wires and retain more heat.
- |>
- |> Of course, I'm being facetious. No sensible engineer would do such a silly
- |> experiment.
- |>
- |> He'd use a co-op student.
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- HEY! I resemble that comment!
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- Andy Barber
- 4th year Co-op student~
- University of Cincinnati/EE
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