Energy: The Universe's Cheat Code

Alright, listen up, class—or should I say doom-scrollers who clicked on physics

by mistake—today we’re talking about energy stores, transfers, and work done.

Don’t scroll yet, because this is literally the universe’s cheat code: the reason you can eat

pizza, drop your phone on your face at 2 a.m., or sprint for the

bus. Energy never disappears; it just moves between bank accounts called stores.

The main ones? Kinetic (movement, zoomies), gravitational potential (lifted objects

waiting to fall), elastic potential (springs and rubber bands plotting chaos), chemical (fuel,

food, batteries—pizza powers your dance moves), thermal/internal