Engines: Characteristics of various internal combustion engines

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Characteristics of various internal combustion engines

Description

Internal combustion engines have been built for a variety of purposes ranging from propelling small model airplanes to powering trucks to driving the propellers of giant ships. This data frame gives the characteristics of a wide size range of such engines.

Usage

data(Engines)

Format

A data frame with 39 cases, each of which is an internal combustion engine, with observations on the following variables.

• mass In pounds

• ncylinder Number of cylinders

• stroke The length of the stroke made by a piston

• strokes Whether the engine cycle is 2-stroke or 4-stroke.

• displacement In cc

• bore Diameter of the piston

• BHP The power generated by the engine. One BHP is the same as 745.7 Watts.

• RPM The speed, in revolutions per second, at which the engine generates the listed BHP.

Source

McMahon, Thomas A., and John Tyler Bonner. On Size and Life. New York: Scientific American Library, 1983. pp. 60-61

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