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IN writing this book on heat engines the author has divided very unequally the space given to engines operating with external combustion and those in which combustion takes place inside the cylinder. By far the larger part is given up to the steam engine, and particularly the steam turbine. As is usual in French books, mathematical analysis is the natural line of approach to any difficult problem, however obscure the relationship of theory and practice. The book is divided into six chapters, of which the first two relate to the laws of thermodynamics—and a very careful and complete statement of them is given—to gaseous cycles and to a concise explanation of what is meant by entropy.
Les Moteurs Thermiques dans leurs Rapports avec la Thermodynamique.
Moteurs à explosion et Combustion. Machines Alternatives Vapeur. Turbines Vapeur. By F. Moritz. Pp. vi + 297. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1913.) Price 13 francs.
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Les Moteurs Thermiques dans leurs Rapports avec la Thermodynamique . Nature 92, 95 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092095a0
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