Physics of the Internal Combustion Engine :: physics motor engine ICE

Background InfromationIn Cambridge England, in 1820 a man by the plant of Reverend W. Cecil was explaining to swearing scientists and inventors how an internal combustion engine worked. All of his fellow colleagues just laughed at him and told him it could never be done.In 1860 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir make Cecils idea come to life by building the archetypical pragmatical internal combustion engine. Three years later in 1863 Lenoir construct one of the worlds first botch up engine cars. Ignition System drive home you ever wondered how turning a simple key will scratching a car? Well, Ill tell you. When you turn the key a petty potentiality from the cars battery is move to the coil. The coil turns the small voltage into a large voltage. Then the coil locates the the voltage to the distributor.The distributor has heavy wires that send the voltage to each spark plug. The distributor, also, tells the spark plugs which one should fire and when to fire.The altenator is othe r part of the ignition system. The basic job of the altenator is to make more voltage to charge the battery. Fuel SystemEveryone knows that you need to have gas in your car for it to run. When you put gas into the car it goes into the gas tank. The gas therefore makes its way from the tank to the carberator via the fuel pump.The carberator mixes the gas and air together. The air is first cleaned by the air filter before going to the carberator.The air and gas admixture is then sent to the aspiration manifold, from there its sent to the intake valve. CombustionThe camshaft opens and closes both the intake valve and the exhust valve. When the intake valve opens, the air and gas mixture rush into the cylinder. The valve closes and the mixture is traped inside.The piston is pushed up and causes compression. At just the skilful moment the spark plug sparks and ignites the mixture. When the gas explodes it pushes the piston back down.When the piston is at the bottom of the stroke, the exhuast valve opens sending the drum out through the bottom of the inning pipe. Exhaust SystemOnce the burnt fuel is throught the exhaust valve it is sent to the exhaust manifold. The exhaust maniflod is just a collecting area for the exhaust coming from the cylinders.Pressure keeps the exhaust moving to the pipes then into the muffler.