Physics GCSE
wasted energy
What wasted energy means in Physics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Energy that is dissipated and stored in less useful ways, becoming so thinly spread that it cannot be usefully recovered.
Energy transferred to less useful stores, often by heating the surroundings, and not included in the useful output.
Energy that spreads into the surroundings, although none of it has been destroyed.
Topics that use wasted energy
- Efficiency (AQA GCSE)
- Energy transfers in a system (AQA GCSE)
- Work done and energy transfer (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Efficiency
- Lubrication
- comparing insulators
- conduction
- direction of transfer
- dissipation
- energy transfer
- friction removing energy
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