Energy Conservation

There are many types of energy: kinetic energy, heat, potential energy, mass energy, etc. While these properties seem very distinct at first, they are in fact multiple sides of a same reality, energy, which is overall conserved during any physical phenomenon. For instance, when the fission of a heavy nucleus produces lighter nuclei the missing mass is not lost, it has been converted into kinetic energy. Energy conservation is a fundamental principle in physics.

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