Power is defined as the rate at which work is done or energy is converted from one form to another. The principles of conservation of energy and conservation of mechanical energy state that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed between different forms, and the total mechanical energy in a system, including both kinetic and potential energy, remains constant when there are no dissipative forces acting. Examples include how the total mechanical energy of an object moving up or down in a gravitational field remains the same.