Heat Engines and Thermodynamics

The P-V cycle is used here to find the different states and how to use those states to find the energy. We used the first law of thermodynamics to eliminate either W depending on the conditions of constant velocity. We also used the idea of delta E= nRT3/2 to find the  change of energy between to points.

The Carnot engine cycle is what we used here it alternated between states of adiabatic and isobaric. We used these ideas to understand that at certain points the heat transfer Q is zero, also under constant pressure delta V is proportional to the temperature. If Q was zero between points we used delta E = W for the change in volume was it did work.

Here we had a isochoric situation where the temperature increase was proportional to the deltaE increase, since work was zero

Here we had a situation of isobaric where the work increased with a volume change and the higher  heat change increased created a somewhat linear increase in delta E.

Here we solved for the specific heat under conditions of constant pressure