Indiana University Southeast Physics Applets: Ideal Otto Engine Simulation

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written by Kyle Forinash

This resource is a simulation of an ideal Otto engine. The page explains the cycles of the engine, and the applet shows its cycles alongside a pressure vs. volume or temperature vs. volume diagram. The graph shows that net work is done by the piston.

This page is part of a collection of Java applets with tutorial questions developed for undergraduate physics students.

https://kforinas.pages.iu.edu/physlets/thermo/Otto.html

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Thermo & Stat Mech - Second and Third Law = Heat Engines	- Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation = Tutorial

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2003 Kyle Forinash
Keywords:: applet, engine cycle, heat engine, interactive simulation, otto, otto cycle, simulation, thermodynamics
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created June 27, 2008 by Christopher Allen
Record Updated:: August 18, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: May 9, 2007
Other Collections:: The Physics Source

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