Energy and Chemistry

The capacity for doing work.

• Potential Energy

• Energy

The energy released in the overall process if the amount of energy liberated in bond-making is greater than that consumed in bond-making. Harnessing of this energy is an important aspect of the overlap between chemistry and engineering.

• Internal Energy

• Chemical Energy

Associated with motion

• Kinetic Energy

• Work

Combined kinetic and potential energies of the atoms and molecules that make up an object.

• External Energy

• Internal Energy

Associated with light or electromagnetic radiation.

• Radiant energy

• Nuclear energy

• Electrical energy

Arises from the temperature of an object.

Associated with the molecular-level motion of atoms and molecules.

• Thermal energy

• Radiant energy

Associated with the movement of macroscopic objects.

• Heat

• Mechanical energy

The transfer of energy accomplished by a force moving a mass some distance against resistance.

• Potential Energy

• Kinetic energy

• Nuclear Energy

• Work

Can be released in fusion and fission processes, is a form of potential energy associated with the arrangement of protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei.

• Potential Energy

• Nuclear Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Gas

Flow of energy between two objects, from the warmer one to the cooler one, because of a difference in their temperatures.

• Heat

• Thermal Energy