Principles of engine operation

Reciprocating motion is the motion of a piston. Both gasoline engines ...

Combustion is one of the strokes for generating power inside a cylinde...

Intake is the first stroke for generating power in a cylinder. It foll...

Compression is one of the strokes for generating power inside a cylind...

Ignition is a required operation on the combustion stroke of a gasolin...

Expansion is the combustion stroke of an engine. See the Combustion se...

A four-stroke engine is an engine in which four strokes (intake, compr...

A two-stroke cycle engine is an engine where it takes two piston strok...

Top dead center is a point at which a piston in a reciprocating engine...

Bottom dead center is a point at which a piston in a reciprocating eng...

Combustion is what happens when ignition occurs on the "combustion str...

Exhaust is one of the strokes for generating power inside a cylinder. ...

Compressed air is air during "compression," which is one part of the c...

Ignition is how fuel burns on the combustion stroke of a diesel engine...

See "Combustion."