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Can someone explain to me which different processes there are in this steam engine? And where they start and end? I can't find figure it out...
 

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What a bizarrely interesting diagram. It's a schematic and a graph intergrated in one illo.
 
The problem is, I don't know where the exact process is happening, fx. I don't know where the isochore proces is on the diagram or if there is a isochore proces at all
 
There are four different processes, isocore, isoterm, isobar and a adiabatic process.
 
Frederik M said:
The problem is, I don't know where the exact process is happening, fx. I don't know where the isochore proces is on the diagram or if there is a isochore proces at all
Well. . The exact process is happening in the Cylinder. If the Piston press in that's the compression comes in. and i think the process is Isochore.
 
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But basically it has to do with differences in potential, Hot Air goes to wear cool air is.