Physics A-Level
Conservation of energy including rest energy
What Conservation of energy including rest energy means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Conservation of energy including rest energy
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The total energy of the system remains constant in any interaction, and this includes rest energy, so a decrease in rest mass appears as an increase in kinetic energy or as photon energy.
Topics that use Conservation of energy including rest energy
- Applications of conservation laws (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Collisions, decays and annihilation processes
- Conservation laws in particle physics
- Conservation of baryon number
- Conservation of charge
- Conservation of lepton number
- Conservation of momentum as a vector quantity
- Energy-mass equivalence
- Lepton number conservation
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