After completing today's reading, exercises, and the associated homework you should be able to:
Give the steps in an ideal Diesel Cycle and draw the corresponding T-s and P-v diagrams
Used conservation of energy and the appropriate property relations to calculate the heat transfer and work in/out of each step of an Diesel Cycle as well as to calculate the cycle efficiency
Give the general trends in cycle efficiency associated with changing the compression ratio in both an Otto Cycle and a Diesel Cycle.