Energy stores and transfers

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Energy stores

There are eight energy stores which are used to keep track of energy in a system.

Energy store	Description	Examples
Magnetic	The energy stored when like poles are pushed closer together or when unlike poles are pulled further apart.	Fridge magnets, compasses and maglev trains which use magnetic levitation.
Thermal	In most cases this is the vibrations of the particles in the object. In hotter objects, the particles vibrate faster.	The human bodies, hot coffees, stoves or hobs. Also: ice particles vibrate slower, but still have energy.
Chemical	The energy store associated with chemical bonds, such as those between molecules.	Food, muscles, electrical cells.
Kinetic	The energy associated with a moving object.	Runners, busses, comets.
Electrostatic	The energy stored when like charges are moved closer together or when unlike charges are pulled further apart.	Thunderclouds, Van De Graaff generators.
Elastic	The energy stored when an object is stretched, squashed or twisted.	Drawn catapults, compressed springs, inflated balloons.
Gravitational	The energy associated with an object at height.	Aeroplanes, kites, mugs on a table.
Nuclear	The energy associated with nuclear interactions.	Nuclear fusion of hydrogen and helium in the Sun, Uranium-245 undergoing fission.

A store is not a physical place, and energy is not a physical substance. The idea of an energy store is to allow calculations to be made and to state how many joules are available for an action to happen. Each of the stores has an equation associated with it.

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