Meanings
- uncountablenatural sciencesa principle stating that energy may not be created or destroyed
The net result is the black hole loses mass (due to conservation of energy).
year unknown, Large Hadron Collider, PediaPress, page 1314 more examples
Robert Mayer is well known as one of the several codiscoverers of the principle of the conservation of energy, the formulation of which was arguably the most important single development in physics during the ...
2015, Kenneth L. Caneva, Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy, Princeton University Press, →ISBNLike the concept of conservation of mass, the idea of conservation of energy is also applicable to all chemical reactions.
2005, S C Rastogi, Cell Biology, New Age International, →ISBN, page 2Temperatures decrease with altitude due to adiabatic cooling (a rising parcel of air expands, and must therefore cool due to conservation of energy).
2008, A Regularization Technique for the Analysis of Photographic Data Used in Chemical Release Wind Measurements, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 2This contribution reduces with increasing distance p from the emitting surface element dA, due to conservation of energy, as the wave energy distributed across the spherical wave front remains constant, while the radius increases during ...
1998, Dieter Schuocker, Handbook of the Eurolaser Academy, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 51
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes
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Translations
Arabic حِفْظ الطَّاقَة
- حِفْظ الطَّاقَة (ḥifẓ aṭ-ṭāqa)conservation of energy
Danish energibevarelse
- energibevarelseconservation of energy
Finnish energian säilyminen, energian häviämättömyys
- energian säilyminenconservation of energy
- energian häviämättömyysconservation of energy
German Energieerhaltung
- Energieerhaltungconservation of energy
Greek διατήρηση της ενέργειας
- διατήρηση της ενέργειας (diatírisi tis enérgeias)conservation of energy
Hindi ऊर्जा संरक्षण
- ऊर्जा संरक्षण (ūrjā sanrakṣaṇ)conservation of energy
Romanian conservarea energiei
- conservarea energieiconservation of energy
Cite this entry
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