| Abstract from DBPedia | In physics, energy density is the amount of energy stored in a given system or region of space per unit volume. It is sometimes confused with energy per unit mass which is properly called specific energy or gravimetric energy density. Often only the useful or extractable energy is measured, which is to say that inaccessible energy (such as rest mass energy) is ignored. In cosmological and other general relativistic contexts, however, the energy densities considered are those that correspond to the elements of the stress–energy tensor and therefore do include mass energy as well as energy densities associated with pressure. Energy per unit volume has the same physical units as pressure and in many situations is synonymous. For example, the energy density of a magnetic field may be expressed as and behaves like a physical pressure. Likewise, the energy required to compress a gas to a certain volume may be determined by multiplying the difference between the gas pressure and the external pressure by the change in volume. A pressure gradient describes the potential to perform work on the surroundings by converting internal energy to work until equilibrium is reached.エネルギー密度（エネルギーみつど、英: energy density）は、系や空間に保存された単位体積あたりのエネルギーの量で、主に u を使って表される。静止質量による静止エネルギーのような利用できないエネルギーを除いた有用な或いは抽出可能なエネルギーで測定される。宇宙論や一般相対論などでは、エネルギー密度はエネルギー・運動量テンソルに対応すると考えられている。エネルギー密度は圧力と同じ次元を持っており、圧力は系における単位体積あたりのエンタルピーを測定したものであるとも言える。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Energy_density) |
