I agree wholeheartedly with Jim G. that this term is
less than worthless. If we focus on energy transfers
in/out of a system and allow for energy to be
"dissipated" within a system (which means simply that
such "dissipated" energy is no longer readily
accessible) by, for example, frictional processes, one
entirely avoids the fiction of "work done by friction"
- pseudo or otherwise. John Barrere
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