dissipative
Adjective
Meaning
Tending to dissipate.
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3 ply static dissipative vinyl grounding mat shown at macro scale For a static dissipative mat to be reliably grounded it must be attached to a path to ground.
As a dissipative element, even an ideal resistor naturally produces a randomly fluctuating voltage, or noise, across its terminals.
In his text “Wave Propagation in Periodic Structures”, citation Brillouin argued that in a dissipative medium the group velocity ceases to have a clear physical meaning.
The method which Prigogine used to study the stability of the dissipative structures to perturbations is of very great general interest.
This means there are dissipative processes such as friction or electrical resistance which continually convert some of the energy stored in the oscillator into heat in the environment.
Zhang and Heidel citation citation showed that, at least for dissipative and conservative quadratic systems, three-dimensional quadratic systems with only three or four terms on the right-hand side cannot exhibit chaotic behavior.