Hero’s Engine : MPH-EP-9

• It represents an early example of a machine that will transform thermal energy into kinetic 
       energy.
• Hero’s engine illustrates transformations of energy and aspects of Newton’s laws of motion.
• The engine operates similarly to a rocket engine. The thermal energy supplied by the bunsen 
       burner (not supplied) is transformed into kinetic energy in the steam jets.
• These jets possess momentum, and by Newton’s third law (‘action and reaction are equal and 
       opposite’), give backward momentum and hence backward force to the nozzles from which 
       they emerge.
• These forces create a turning movement about the longitudinal axis of the glassware and 
       hence the glass apparatus rotates.

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