| DCS # | DEMONSTRATION | REFERENCE | ABSTRACT |
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| 4F30.00 | Heat Cycles | | |
| 4F30.01 | Hero's engine | ref. | see 3C55.35 |
| 4F30.01 | drinking bird | ref. | see 4E31.20 |
| 4F30.10 | Stirling engine | PIRA 200 | Show both a working stirling engine and a cutaway model. |
| 4F30.10 | Stirling engine | 4F30.10 | Show both a working Stirling engine and a cutaway model. |
| 4F30.10 | Stirling hot air engine | Hn-4 | A Stirling hot air engine. |
| 4F30.10 | hot air engine | 26-6.1 | Pictures and diagram of a hot air engine that can be run as a hot or cold engine or driven both ways. |
| 4F30.10 | Stirling engine | Disc 15-06 | Shows the standard Stirling engine, includes good animation. |
| 4F30.11 | the stirling engine explained | TPT 28(4),252 | An explanation of how the Stirling engine works. Good diagrams. (We had to machine off the top half of one to convince the faculty) |
| 4F30.20 | steam engine | PIRA 500 | |
| 4F30.20 | steam engine | Hn-3 | A small steam engine runs from a small alcohol lamp. |
| 4F30.20 | steam engine | H-5b.3 | A small steam engine powers a small electric generator. |
| 4F30.22 | room temperature steam engine | AJP 41(5),726 | Place an inflated balloon on the end of a capped copper tube and immerse the tube in liquid N2. Place a weight the collapsed balloon and it will rise when the balloon warms up. |
| 4F30.25 | Liquid nitrogen engine | Hn-2 | Convert a small steam engine to run on liquid nitrogen. |
| 4F30.25 | liquid air steam engine | H-113 | Run a model steam engine by connecting a test tube of liquid air to the boiler. |
| 4F30.30 | Hilsh tube | PIRA 1000 | |
| 4F30.30 | Hilsh tube | 4F30.30 | |
| 4F30.31 | model steam engine | H-5b.1 | Picture of a model steam engine. |
| 4F30.35 | compressed air engine | Hn-1 | The parts of a steam engine that runs on compressed air. |
| 4F30.40 | refrigerator | PIRA 1000 | |
| 4F30.50 | engine models | H-182 | Models of different engines are shown. |
| 4F30.52 | model gasoline engine | H-5b.2 | A picture of a model gasoline engine. |
| 4F30.55 | air/ocean uniform temperature engine | AJP 52(8),721 | An experimental engine that shows that it is possible to extract heat from a nonhomogeneous uniform temperature reservoir. The humidity must be less than 100% as evaporative cooling is used. |
| 4F30.56 | ratchet and pawl model | 26-6.2 | Use of a ratchet and pawl model to discuss the second law. Diagram, Construction details in appendix, p.1287. |
| 4F30.60 | Nitinol engine | PIRA 1000 | |
| 4F30.60 | Nitinol engine | 4F30.60 | |
| 4F30.60 | Nitinol engine comments | AJP 54(8),745 | Comments on AJP 52(12),1144 taking issue with several points. |
| 4F30.60 | Nitinol engine | AJP 52(12),1144 | Short thermodynamic discussion of the Nitinol engine. |
| 4F30.70 | rubber band engine | PIRA 1000 | |
| 4F30.70 | rubber band motor | Hm-5 | A wheel with rubber band spokes turns when heated locally with a spotlight. |
| 4F30.70 | rubber band motor | 26-4.1 | The spokes of a bicycle wheel are replaced with rubber bands and a heat lamp is focused on one area causing the bands to contract at that point. Pictures. |
| 4F30.71 | rubber band motor thermodynamics | AJP 43(4),349 | An analysis of the thermodynamics of a simple rubber band heat engine. |
| 4F30.76 | optimizing the rubber-band engine | AJP 46(11),1107 | An appropriate choice of dimensions maximizes the torque of an Archibald rubber-band heat engine. Plenty of analysis. |
| 4F30.90 | Buchner diagram extensions | AJP 57(4),379 | Comments extending the Buchner diagram to irreversible systems. |
| 4F30.91 | Bucher diagrams | AJP 54(9),850 | A new diagram of the Carnot cycle to replace the pipeline diagram. |
| 4F30.95 | Carnot cycle diagrams | AJP 34(10),979 | A set of thirty different Carnot cycle diagrams. |