I noticed I clearly made a mistake on my last post with my construction of equation 5. The denominator should bethe total volume of the cylinder fully expanded (0.90477m^3). The corrected formula for pressure is now found in equation 1 of this post. Using equation 2 I have the highest ratio...
My understanding of this problem is that I must find the volume of initial steam to add so that the adiabat is as large as possible without condensing the steam. Point B to Point C on the following image is that adiabatic transition that I am talking about...
Homework Statement
A steam engine has a cylinder 80cm in diameter with a piston that has a total travel length of 1.8m. Assume that there is no "dead space" between the cylinder head and the piston when the piston is farthest in the cylinder. Steam is piped into the cylinder head from an...