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Does friction produce thermal energy

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What is friction and what does it produce?

Friction produces heat!!!!!


Which type of energy is the mechanical energy of the car converted?

Most of it will be converted to heat, via friction.


What produces thermal energy but not light energy?

Friction.


What can cause kinetic energy to change into thermal energy?

Friction can cause kinetic energy to change into thermal energy


What Can cause kinetic energy to change to thermal energy?

Friction can cause kinetic energy to change into thermal energy


When an object loses kinetic energy due to a force of kinetic friction is the loss of kinetic energy transformed primarily into potential or thermal energy?

Kinetic friction is associated with thermal energy (and sound or light).


How is a rubbing your hands together an example of thermal energy?

This is an example of mechanical friction creating thermal energy


When is Thermal Energy waste?

An example: When applying the brakes on a moving car (kinetic energy,) the Brake Pads and Disks heat (thermal energy) from the friction, as do the tires and the road (again, friction. All the Thermal Energy created, is waste or wasted.


What do brakes do?

A vehicals brakes convert kinetic energy into thermal energy through friction and dissipate the thermal energy into the atmosphere


Does friction causes mechanical energy to be transformed into potential energy?

Thermal


What causes thermal energy always formed in an energy conversion?

friction


Friction frequently causes some of an objects mechanical energy to be changed to what form?

A. thermal energy B. nuclear energy C. gravitational potential energy D. Chemical potential energy the correct answer will be A. thermal energy because friction cause heat that what cause thermal energy.