Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair
CHAPTER II
Operating Principles of Two- and Four-Stroke Engines--Four-cycle Action--Two-cycle Action--Comparing Two- and Four-cycle Types-- Theory of Gas and Gasoline Engine--Early Gas-Engine Forms-- Isothermal Law--Adiabatic Law--Temperature Computations--Heat and Its Work--Conversion of Heat to Power--Requisites for Best Power Effect 37-59