Explore work and energy concepts with a real-world example: a crashing car analysis! In this physics tutorial, we break down kinetic energy, work done, and energy transfer during a collision. Using ...
In physics, power is the rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed. The unit of power is the joule per second (J/s), known as the watt (in honor of James Watt, the eighteenth-century ...
Taken from the February 2022 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "The transformative power of physics". Joanne O’Meara reviews Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: ...