Work and Energy


   
 
Energy
Any thing that is able to do work possesses energy. Energy is the capacity to do work. Energy is measured by the amount of work that a body can do. Therefore, SI unit of energy is also joule.
 
Different Forms of Energy
There are different forms of energy like for example, mechanical energy, heat energy, electrical energy and chemical energy. In this chapter, we shall study about mechanical energy.
 
Kinetic energy and potential energy are the two types of mechanical energy.
 
 
     
   
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