Energy dissipation — Science definition
Defined in 2 courses:
- Energy spreading into less useful forms, often thermal energy in the surroundings. (Physical Science: Matter, Forces & Energy)
- Energy spreading out into less useful forms, like thermal energy or sound, often due to friction. (Physical Science: Matter, Forces & Energy)
Where it is taught
- Efficiency & Improving a Design — Work & Machines, Physical Science: Matter, Forces & Energy, Grade 8
- Conservation of Energy — Energy & Heat Transfer, Physical Science: Matter, Forces & Energy, Grade 8
In use
This spreading of energy into scattered, less useful forms is called energy dissipation.
Conservation of Energy
Taught alongside
- efficiency
- criterion
- model
- evidence
- system boundary
- assumption
- law of conservation of energy
- mechanical energy