| You must be leaving something out since it makes sense as written. What he is saying is this DE = q + w Also known as the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, with a bit of second and third laws thrown in. A few years ago Smokey Yunick made a small block chevy that ran at about 600 or 1100 degrees can't recall.... Well anyhow it was so cool when it came out, that i looked and just found a bit on it. Read it here very interesting bit of auto history. [ http://www.bankspower.com/tech_coolair.cfm ] This Hot Vapor engine was engineered not to reject so much heat AKA "inefficiency" and it produced "incredible power" and got 50 MPG to boot. I think that was what was being got at in your book, you stated "heat" not HP in your example.
1991 2+2 1993 convertible |