JAMES: Energy is also transferred through work done. We cover work done in much more detail in our Bitesize Physics ‘forces’ series, so be sure to go back and check that one out. But for a ...

But to understand how things work in the real world, quantum mechanics must be combined with other elements of physics – principally, Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity ...

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