Type of energy | Description |
|---|---|
Mechanical | The sum of macroscopic translational and rotational kinetic and potential energies |
Electric | Potential energy due to or stored in electric fields |
Magnetic | Potential energy due to or stored in magnetic fields |
Gravitational | Potential energy due to or stored in gravitational fields |
Chemical | Potential energy due to chemical bonds |
Ionization | Potential energy that binds an electron to its atom or molecule |
Nuclear | Potential energy that binds nucleons to form the atomic nucleus (and nuclear reactions) |
Chromodynamic | Potential energy that binds quarks to form hadrons |
Elastic | Potential energy due to the deformation of a material (or its container) exhibiting a restorative force |
Mechanical wave | Kinetic and potential energy in an elastic material due to a propagated deformational wave |
Sound wave | Kinetic and potential energy in a fluid due to a sound propagated wave (a particular form of mechanical wave) |
Radiant | Potential energy stored in the fields of propagated by electromagnetic radiation, including light |
Rest | Potential energy due to an object’s rest mass |
Thermal | Kinetic energy of the microscopic motion of particles, a form of disordered equivalent of mechanical energy |