Research Article

Pedagogical Visualization of a Nonideal Carnot Engine

Table 1

Categorization of answers to question 1. In the middle column, the contributions of the individual students are shown. The students are labeled as A1–A12 and B1–B16.

CategoryStudentsNumber of answers

Heat losses—unspecifiedA1, A3, A9, A12
B2, B3, B5, B7, B8, B9, B11, B12, B15, B16
14
Heat losses—frictionalA2, A8, A10
B5
4
Ideality aspectsA3, A5, A6, A7
B3, B4, B6, B7, B9
9
Timing aspectsA4, A9, A10, A11, A12
B13, B14, B15, B16
9
OtherB1, B102