Energy stores and pathways
What Energy stores and pathways means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Energy can be stored in stores such as kinetic, gravitational potential, elastic potential, thermal, chemical and nuclear stores, and transferred by pathways such as heating or mechanical work.
To describe a change, name the decreasing store, the increasing store, and the pathway by which energy is transferred.
Topics that use Energy stores and pathways
- Energy stores and systems (AQA GCSE)
- Energy transfers in a system (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Conservation of energy
- Change of state and latent heat
- Closed system
- Closed systems
- Dissipation and air resistance
- Dissipation of energy
- Effect of wall thickness on energy transfer
- Electrical work and heating
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