Energy

In every use:

• Mechanical: the sum of macroscopic translational and rotational kinetic and potential energies
• Gravitational: potential energy due to or stored in gravitational fields
• Chemical: potential energy due to chemical bonds
• Elastic: potential energy due to the deformation of a material (or its container) exhibiting a restorative force
• Sound wave: kinetic and potential energy in a fluid due to a sound propagated wave (a particular form of mechanical wave)
• Radiant: potential energy stored in the fields of propagated by electromagnetic radiation, including light
• Thermal: kinetic energy of the microscopic motion of particles, a form of disordered equivalent of mechanical energy

Microscopic energy:

• Mechanical wave: kinetic and potential energy in an elastic material due to a propagated deformational wave
• Electric: potential energy due to or stored in electric fields
• Magnetic: potential energy due to or stored in magnetic fields
• Ionization: potential energy that binds an electron to its atom or molecule
• Nuclear: potential energy that binds nucleons to form the atomic nucleus (and nuclear reactions)
• Chromodynamic: potential energy that binds quarks to form hadrons
• Rest: potential energy due to an object's rest mass

• 10 fJ = energy deliverer to a the eardrum by listening one second to a whisper
• 1 dJ = energy of a leaf falling one meter on earth
• 1 J = kinetic energy produced as an extra small apple (~100 grams) falls 1 meter against Earth's gravity
• 1 J = energy required to heat 1 gram of dry, cool air by 1 degree Celsius
• 4.184 J = energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius
• 300 J = one person jumping as high as the can (70kg, 40cm on eath)
• 330 J = melting 1g or ice
• 360 J = Kinetic energy of 800 gram standard men's javelin thrown at > 30 m/s by elite javelin throwers
• 1.4 kJ = average energy receive from the sun in 1m²/s
• 2.3 kJ = vaporizing 1g of water into steam
• 3.1 kJ = Kinetic energy of world-record men's hammer throw (7.26 kg thrown at 30.7 m/s in 1986)
• 4.2 kJ = energy release by 1g of TNT
• 9 kJ = 1 AA baterry
• 17 kJ = 1g of carbohydrates or protein
• 38 kJ = 1g of fat
• 50 kJ = 1g of matter at 10km/s
• 600 kJ = 1 automobile (2t) at 90 km/h
• 1.2 MJ = energy of a snack such as a snickers bar (280 kcal)
• 5.2 MJ = average heat lost by a human in a day
• 8.4 MJ = Recommended food energy intake per day for a moderately active woman (2000 food calories)
• 11 MJ = Recommended food energy intake per day for a moderately active man (2600 food calories)
• 40 MJ = Energy from the combustion of 1 cubic meter of natural gas
• 42 MJ = Caloric energy consumed by Olympian Michael Phelps on a daily basis during Olympic training
• 110 MJ ≈ 1 Tour de France, or ~90 hours ridden at 5 W/kg by a 65 kg rider
• 1-10 GJ = Energy in an average lightning bolt
• 1.4 GJ = Theoretical minimum amount of energy required to melt a tonne of steel
• 2 GJ = Energy of an ordinary 61 liter gasoline tank of a car
• 3.3 GJ = Approximate average amount of energy expended by a human heart muscle over an 80-year lifetime
• 4.5 GJ = Average annual energy usage of a standard refrigerator

• 19 GJ = Kinetic energy of an Airbus A380 at cruising speed (560 tonnes at 511 knots or 263 m/s)
• 88 GJ = Total energy released in the nuclear fission of one gram of uranium-235
• 240 GJ = Approximate food energy consumed by an average human in an 80-year lifetime (2000 kcal for 80 years)
• 11 TJ = Energy of the maximum fuel an Airbus A380 can carry (320,000 liters of Jet A-1)
• 12 TJ = Orbital kinetic energy of the International Space Station
• 63 TJ = Yield of the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II (15 kilotons)
• 90 TJ = Theoretical total mass-energy of 1 gram of matter
• 600 TJ = Energy released by an average hurricane in 1 second
• 100 PJ = Energy released on the Earth's surface by the magnitude 9.1–9.3 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
• 170 PJ = Total energy from the Sun that strikes the face of the Earth each second
• 210 PJ = Yield of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever tested (50 megatons)
• 420 PJ = Yearly electricity consumption of Norway as of 2008
• 800 PJ = Estimated energy released by the eruption of the Indonesian volcano, Krakatoa, in 1883
• 5 EJ = Energy released in 1 day by an average hurricane in producing rain (400 times greater than the wind energy)
• 64 EJ = Yearly electricity consumption of the world as of 2008
• 500 EJ = Total world annual energy consumption in 2010
• 800 EJ = Estimated global uranium resources for generating electricity 2005
• 7.9 ZJ = Estimated energy contained in the world's petroleum reserves as of 2010
• 39 ZJ = Estimated energy contained in the world's fossil fuel reserves as of 2010
• 500 ZJ = Approximate energy released in the formation of the Chicxulub²⁾ Crater in the Yucatán Peninsula
• 5.5 YJ = Total energy from the Sun that strikes the face of the Earth each year
• 380 YJ = Total energy output of the Sun each second
• 38k YJ = Kinetic energy of the Moon in its orbit around the Earth (counting only its velocity relative to the Earth)
• 2.1M YJ = Rotational energy of the Earth
• 4.2 10e45 YJ = Estimated total mass-energy of the observable universe

• 10e−1 J-dJ-decijoule
• 10e−2 J-cJ-centijoule
• 10e−3 J-mJ-millijoule
• 10e−6 J-µJ-microjoule
• 10e−9 J-nJ-nanojoule
• 10e−12 J-pJ-picojoule
• 10e−15 J-fJ-femtojoule
• 10e−18 J-aJ-attojoule
• 10e−21 J-zJ-zeptojoule
• 10e−24 J-yJ-yoctojoule

• 10e1 J-daJ-decajoule
• 10e2 J-hJ-hectojoule
• 10e3 J-kJ-kilojoule
• 10e6 J-MJ-megajoule
• 10e9 J-GJ-gigajoule
• 10e12 J-TJ-terajoule
• 10e15 J-PJ-petajoule
• 10e18 J-EJ-exajoule
• 10e21 J-ZJ-zettajoule
• 10e24 J-YJ-yottajoule