Different forms of Energy Turn on an electric light, and a dark room becomes brighter.
Turn on your portable music player, and sound comes through
the headphones or speaker. In both of these cases, energy moves
from one place to another. These changes are as different from
each other as from the change caused by the racket hitting the
ball. Energy has many different forms. Electrical energy, chemical
energy, radiant energy, and thermal energy are some of the
common forms.
The figure above shows some forms of energy and some
examples associated with these forms of energy.