Mage? Spell Engineer!

Looking at the parts covering the table, Luo Xia couldn't help but think that if he had learned mechanics before, he wouldn't have killed them randomly. No, it seems that I can now use what I learned in my previous life.

"Are there any operating parameters for the power furnace? Boiler temperature, pressure, power, etc."

"Yes, I'll ask them to make a copy for you."

The old brothers were all working hard, and Snow and Rorschach were not to be disturbed. They talked quietly after entering the room. Now Snow took Rorschach to the nearest cartography guy:

"He's in Master Kano's group, give him a copy of the data."

The young man who was called raised his head, his eyes were bloodshot, and he stared at Rorschach for a while, then suddenly grabbed his hand: "Don't come, run! Run, you silly boy!"

"Are you stupid for drawing pictures?" Snow spread his hands: "Didn't I tell you that he is a member of Master Kano's team, and he is not here to join the job!"

"Oh, sorry, sorry."

"Haha, our magic design department is full of talents, but they are a bit neurotic." After speaking, Snow opened a new purple potion and drank it.

You are all quite scary. After getting the data, Rorschach hurried to the fourth floor.

Kano saw Rorschach coming back: "How was it?"

"I think the Alchemy Department needs to control the consumption of energy potions while ensuring rest time."

"They all arrange their working hours voluntarily," Cano shrugged: "Of course, based on work assignments."

Rorschach sat down, took manuscript paper and a quill and started writing and drawing.

Pascal was organizing the manuscript for Professor Carnot and asked Rorschach: "What are you going to do?"

"Understand the principle of the dwarf power furnace."

"Why bother? If you don't understand, you will only be humiliated by the guys from the Alchemy Department."

"What if I figure it out?"

"Well...that might feel like you're humiliating them."

After a long time, Kano and his senior sister Paulina went to do the experiment: "Today's experiment is very complicated. Novices should not come here. You should read the literature first."

So Rorschach received a stack of papers from his tutor.

"How about it?"

Huh... Luo Xia tried to sort out the data and made a table: "I don't understand, but I have a rough idea."

"I knew it... Rorschach, pack your things, it's almost time to leave."

"So early?" Kano had to have brunch in the morning. He had a group meeting and a visit to the alchemy department in the afternoon, and now it's only around 8pm.

"Our mentor, Archmage Kano, has social activities. At night, the ladies wear their necklines low, and the gentlemen also wear powder on their faces. A group of people fill their stomachs with delicious food such as truffle chicken and grilled halibut. I drank wine by the bucketful..."

Compared with other archmages, Kano is not so secluded. On the contrary, as a native of Valuauna, he is very funny and good at talking. He is already a prominent figure representing the Tower of Stars and entering and exiting Valuaana's upper class society.

Attend a banquet at nine o'clock in the evening. After dinner, I play Talocchi, a poker game from the southern tip of the continent, with the king's respectable guys until late at night. Then wake up at 9 a.m. and enjoy brunch. This is the daily cycle of Mr. Kano, the famous master, which is boring and tasteless.

"Can these materials be taken back to the dormitory?"

"Of course! But boy, you still have a great time, don't get immersed in books and miss the beautiful things!" Kano came back from the laboratory, and he said to the young man seriously.

No, I haven't discovered anything wonderful about Valuauna in the middle of the night. The pure boy refuses the bad temptation of the colorful world.

Returning to the Tower of Stars dormitory, Rorschach took out a new piece of manuscript paper and wrote the title: "Investigating the Efficiency Limits of Thermodynamic Conversion and Heat Engines"

There is no way, who calls his mentor "Kano"?

Simply put, the operation cycle of a heat engine, any machine that converts heat into mechanical work, including steam engines, can be simplified into four processes:

The working medium of a steam engine is water, which can be cooled by expansion and releasing heat to a low-temperature environment, and heated by being compressed and absorbing heat from a high-temperature heat source.

In other words, the working medium gains or loses a certain amount of heat from the environment, either changes in volume or temperature, and when the volume becomes larger, it can push the piston or impeller to output power.

Since the amount of heat is constant, it is hoped that the temperature change consumes as little as possible, and the volume change outputs more work.

In the process of an ideal reversible cycle, the heat consumed by temperature changes can be minimized. The entire process is known as the Carnot cycle, after its previous inventor.

As for why, Rorschach wanted to educate the mages in this world in his paper about what a reversible process is... In short, the heat engine has an efficiency limit, which depends on the temperature difference between the heat source and the exothermic environment.

It has a major premise, energy conservation. Regardless of the existence of chemical energy and magic power, extend the principle of equivalent exchange in alchemy to the field of thermodynamics, and tell the old friends in the alchemy department: Energy conservation! Well, they definitely understand!

Fortunately, this world has calculus, otherwise I would be exhausted even if I were a copywriter, and I am not good at math... Luo Xia thought silently as he wrote furiously.

In order to better depict the magic circuit, to build the house better, to hit the cannonball to the opposite side better... The smart people in this world still spend their precious time tinkering with mathematical logic besides studying gods and magic.

Mathematics, you are really powerful because you can thrive in a world with magic!

If he completes the path of Carnot, Kelvin, Clausius, and Maxwell, Rorschach can write a tome and become the first person to talk about thermodynamics in another world, and then... there will be no more.

Mages who focus on alchemy will despise: How can you, a mage, study these things like a dwarf? Do you know magic?

Unconsciously, the night was getting late. Rorschach stopped writing and continued to use [Light Technique] for lighting. He would not miss the opportunity to improve his proficiency.

"I feel like I've been tinkering with theoretical knowledge lately, and I need to learn spells... Can I be reimbursed for buying learning scrolls?"

Before going to bed, Rorschach reviewed the unfinished first draft, started another page and wrote down his thoughts:

Does the law of conservation of energy hold true including magic?

Is there an efficiency limit to the conversion of magic power to other elements and energy?

We also need to test the effect of the oscillating crystal... to figure out the threshold of the shielding effect caused by the input of magic power...

Finally, Rorschach checked the panel. The entry with the highest proficiency level, "Magic Condensation (Purple)," had reached 836, and there were still dozens of experience points left before the next level.

Will there be a next level? What's behind the purple? What new effects will be unlocked? Rorschach was thinking about this, and the light spell went out unknowingly.

…

Paulina has been wrangling with the Alchemy Department these days. Rorschach reads literature or helps Cano in the laboratory during the day, and works on his own paper at night.

At breakfast on the penultimate day of January and the last working day, Rorschach ate in the cafeteria and read the newspaper as usual.

Haha!

It's getting cold. Rorschach was still wearing a cotton shirt and a mage robe. Looking at the apprentices around him, some were wearing cashmere and leather vests under their open robes. There were also noble ladies who were intolerant to the cold and were wearing fur shawls outside their robes.

I'm going on vacation soon and need to buy clothes.

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