ETSC
Assignment 2 – Engine Concepts
1. What is the four stroke compression cycle?
2. What happens during each of the engine of the engines four strokes?
3. What is combustion?
4. What is required to have combustion? (It has to do with the fire triangle)
5. What happens when you compress a gas like air or the air fuel mixture in a cylinder?
6. What is displacement in terms of an internal combustion engine?
7. What difference does displacement make in an internal combustion engine?
8. What are three advantages and disadvantages to having an eight cylinder engine when compared to a four cylinder engine?
9. What is an internal combustion engine supposed to do?
10. Where does the majority of the energy from the fuel go when an internal combustion engine is running?