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Old 25th Nov 2011, 12:21
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Slippery_pete:

It doesn't apply in a fixed volume piston engine (because the unswept volume determines the number of molecules you can get in there [there being the combustion chamber])
Wrong again. The "unswept volume" is the combustion chamber (or at least part of it depending how semantic you want to be). It is the swept volume x the volumetric efficiency that determines the number of molecules you get in - not the "unswept volume".

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