References
Sterling engine References
This seems to be a project fora ME class at some other university. It talks about uses in aircraft as well as history.
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~amit/courses/371/abhishe/main2.html
This page, from Wikipedia, was used fairly extensively and some of the figures were borrowed.
Sterling Engine
NASA page on a Sterling radioscope generator.
Stirling radioisotope generator
An interesting page that describes a heat powered cooler and talks a bit about sterling engine theory.
Twice Double acting Sterling Engine
Serway, "Physics for scientists and Engineers" this was used for the theory part of the javascript P-V diagram.
web stuff references
The Mozilla developer center helped a lot with javascript and css. I also borrowed their style because I am unoriginal and it looks clean and easy to read. here are a few useful pages:
a Canvas example
A canvas moveto example
Drawing Graphics with Canvas
Tools
An awesome text editor. syntax highlighting, code folding, spell checking (with plug in) and much more. it supports many languages besides HTML.
An excellent web browser. I also used the Console² extension to debug errors in javascript and css.
A good free image editing program I just used it to resize and touch up though.
a good office suit with a nice equation editor. I used the equation editor to make the equations for the theory page.