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About conservation of energy.........

albertlee
in Classical Physics

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When a car is driving from left to right in the direction of force(right) using kinetic energy, what energy does the K.E. transfer to?

 

I was thinking that it would be potential energy, but since energy is the capacity to do work, the such energy cannot do work due to likely the gavity, therefore it is just the displacement anyway..............

 

Any help? :confused:

It dissipates as heat, "wasted" energy, if it were in harmonic motion i.e going up and down, that would be kinetic changing to potential...

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Yes, dissipated energy.............

 

Can anyone explain more detailed about what is dissipated energy? and how it refers to my question?

dissipated energy is energy that has been wasted. Energy from the car is 'wasted' or 'dissipated' as energy that has no use to us. In this case, the car wastes energy as heat because of friction, and even sound, as you can hear the car.

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