Conservation Of Energy
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General Overview :: Conservation Of Energy
The law of Conservation of energy is an empirical law of physics. It states that the total amount of Energy in an Isolated system remains constant over Time . A consequence of this law is that Energy can neither be created nor destroyed it can only be transformed from one state to another. The only thing that can happen to Energy in a Closed system is that it can change form for instance Chemical energy can become kinetic Energy. Albert Einstein's Theory of relativity shows that energy and Mass are the same thing, and that neither one appears without the other. Thus in closed systems, both mass and energy are conserved separately, just as was understood in pre-relativistic physics. The new feature of relativistic physics is that "matter" particles could be converted to non-matter forms of Energy, such as light; or kinetic and Potential energy . However, this conversion does not affect the total mass of systems, since the latter forms of non-matter energy still retain their mass through any such conversion. Today, Conservation of energy refers to the conservation of the total system energy over Time. This energy includes the energy associated with the Rest mass of particles and all other forms of energy in the system. In addition, the Invariant mass of systems of particles is also conserved over time for any single observer, and is the same value for all observers. Therefore, in an Isolated system, although matter and "pure energy" can be converted to one another, both the total amount of energy and the total amount of mass of such systems remain constant over Time, as seen by any single observer. If energy in any form is allowed to escape such systems , the mass of the system will decrease in correspondence with the loss.
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