Example: TV. Electricity- Heat, light, sound. Useful energy transfers would be electricity- light, sound because that's what your TV actually needs, but electricity- heat would be wasted energy or a non-useful energy transfer because your TV does not need to produce heat, unless of course you can't afford central heating, but then isn't heating more important than a TV???? Summary: Useful energy transfer: The purpose of the object is fufilled by this transfer. Non-useful energy transfer: The purpose of the object is not fufilled by this transfer, and in effect, this transfer is a "side effect" of the useful energy transfer. These transfers waste energy.
Yes, a TV set produces thermal energy by converting electrical energy with the use of resistance.
-- a lightning bolt -- a TV set
Electrical to sound+light+heat
To turn it on you use mechanical energy produced in the muscles in your hand. To energise the TV you use electrical energy
by electricity
If you look at your television set's nameplate, it will specify its power in watts. A watt is simply a joule per second. So, if your television is rated at, say, 300 W, then it is transferring energy at the rate of 300 joules per second.
Example: TV. Electricity- Heat, light, sound. Useful energy transfers would be electricity- light, sound because that's what your TV actually needs, but electricity- heat would be wasted energy or a non-useful energy transfer because your TV does not need to produce heat, unless of course you can't afford central heating, but then isn't heating more important than a TV???? Summary: Useful energy transfer: The purpose of the object is fufilled by this transfer. Non-useful energy transfer: The purpose of the object is not fufilled by this transfer, and in effect, this transfer is a "side effect" of the useful energy transfer. These transfers waste energy.
Mechanical energy into electrical energy
A device such as a television set won't work at all without energy.
Yes, a TV set produces thermal energy by converting electrical energy with the use of resistance.
It doesn't. If you mean the TV set at your home, it USES electrical energy.
-- a lightning bolt -- a TV set
A television set doesn't store any significant amount of energy. It does use energy, to do what it's supposed to do.
Electrical to sound+light+heat
That happens in a TV set.
To turn it on you use mechanical energy produced in the muscles in your hand. To energise the TV you use electrical energy