⚙️ Stirling Engine

The Sterling engine uses a temprature difference to create motion. A displacer piston moves gas between hot and cold regions, while a power piston converts that big pressure change into mechanical work. It's pretty cool if you ask me.

• Hot Expansion: Gas heats up and expands, pushing the power piston
• Transfer to Cold: Displacer moves gas to cold side
• Cold Compression: Gas cools and contracts, piston compresses
• Return to Hot: Displacer moves gas back to hot side

• Increase temperature difference for more power
• Watch the PV diagram trace the thermodynamic cycle
• Observe how gas molecules move between chambers
• Notice the 90° phase difference between pistons
• Try a low temperature difference between the reservoirs, and see what happens