Talking about energy is kind of like accounting. You see what goes in, what comes out, and the transfer of it, but not how it actually happens. The accounting is important, it's how we can check that our models are correct, but there's a lot of complex details that this explanation glosses over. as an analogy, A boulder on a mountain has a lot of potential energy because it's high up. If it rolls down the mountain it can convert the potential energy to kinetic energy, so you could say that energy is being "released," but what does that really mean? It could release that energy into someone's house and smash it, or it could land in the ocean and make a big splash, or just roll to a stop from friction eventually and make a bunch of noise and heat. Energy is just the currency of physics. It's necessary for stuff to happen, but it doesn't explain much on its own. In the case of atoms and molecules, energy is either contained as potential in chemical bonds (instead of gravity like the rock on a mountain, you have the electric force between electrons and protons), or heat, i.e. the kinetic energy of the atoms - how fast they are moving and jjiggling around. When energy is "released" that means converting the potential to kinetic. You spend a little bit to push the boulder, i.e. break the bond, and then it shoots off down the hill. It's like a little tiny explosion, throwing an atom like a baseball and giving it a sudden boost in speed. That pulls on other atoms that are bound to it like a chain, so the whole thing vibrates and slings around like a loose garden hose. Except that hose has places that other things can attach to it, so it can pick things up and fling them across your lawn. In the case of muscle cells, that garden hose is called myosin.
@@DFPercushgood explanation! I Will be always mindfucked of what energy really is, it’s like we all knows the rules of the game but we don’t Who the fuck creates Their rules
Finally a great explanation that explains how we actually get the energy from breaking ATP 🙏🙏
What is energy ? How does it make things work ? I still don’t get it
Talking about energy is kind of like accounting. You see what goes in, what comes out, and the transfer of it, but not how it actually happens. The accounting is important, it's how we can check that our models are correct, but there's a lot of complex details that this explanation glosses over. as an analogy, A boulder on a mountain has a lot of potential energy because it's high up. If it rolls down the mountain it can convert the potential energy to kinetic energy, so you could say that energy is being "released," but what does that really mean? It could release that energy into someone's house and smash it, or it could land in the ocean and make a big splash, or just roll to a stop from friction eventually and make a bunch of noise and heat. Energy is just the currency of physics. It's necessary for stuff to happen, but it doesn't explain much on its own.
In the case of atoms and molecules, energy is either contained as potential in chemical bonds (instead of gravity like the rock on a mountain, you have the electric force between electrons and protons), or heat, i.e. the kinetic energy of the atoms - how fast they are moving and jjiggling around. When energy is "released" that means converting the potential to kinetic. You spend a little bit to push the boulder, i.e. break the bond, and then it shoots off down the hill. It's like a little tiny explosion, throwing an atom like a baseball and giving it a sudden boost in speed. That pulls on other atoms that are bound to it like a chain, so the whole thing vibrates and slings around like a loose garden hose. Except that hose has places that other things can attach to it, so it can pick things up and fling them across your lawn. In the case of muscle cells, that garden hose is called myosin.
@@DFPercushgood explanation! I Will be always mindfucked of what energy really is, it’s like we all knows the rules of the game but we don’t Who the fuck creates Their rules
Thank you so much for this amazing video!!
Wow, great explanation.
Very clever explanation
I need some type of that magnet example for bond breaking and forming , and release of energy concept,Thanks ❤
thanks very much now i gain a lot of understanding
How is the released energy then used?
to break more bonds
Short and effective
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