What is energy?

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asked Feb 8, 2017 in Science by Aditya kumar (115 points) 1 3 8

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answered Feb 8, 2017 by sarthaks (25,122 points) 9 24 36

Energy

Energy of a body is its capacity of doing work.

It is a scalar quantity.

Its S1 unit is joule and CGS unit is erg. Its dimensional formula is [ML3T-3].

There are several types of energies, such as mechanical energy (kinetic energy and potential energy), chemical energy, light energy, heat energy, sound energy, nuclear energy, electric energy etc.

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