Physics A-Level
Gravitational potential energy conversion
What Gravitational potential energy conversion means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Infalling matter forms an accretion disc, and gravitational potential energy transfers to thermal energy, heating the disc to millions of kelvin.
Topics that use Gravitational potential energy conversion
- Quasars (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Accretion discs and black hole mass
- Active galactic nuclei
- Cosmological redshift
- estimation
- Hubble's law
- Inverse-square law
- Quasars
- Quasi-stellar radio sources
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