What does energy really mean in the real world?

Frankww · Aug 18, 2007

What does energy really mean in the real world? Or it is just a mathematical tool?

russ_watters · Aug 18, 2007

Well...push a car up a hill. Is that real world? Energy (kinetic and potential energy) is force times distance.

Kushal · Aug 18, 2007

energy is simply means the capacity to do work. energy is what gives you power to do things. Everything, i mean just everything, consists of energy.

That's the view of a college student. I'm no kind of expert in this...

rcgldr · Aug 18, 2007

Here's a link to a previous thread:

What is energy?

EmperorNeo · Aug 22, 2007

Energy is a mathematical tool.But it's quite useful.

What does energy really mean in the real world?

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