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Energy is the conserved quantity associated to time-translation invariance and represents the work a system is capable of doing. Use this tag for questions about energy, and consider adding the [energy-conservation] tag if it is specifically about its conservation.

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How does energy flow in a circuit?

I read some information on a certain blog saying that energy does not flow inside the wires of a circuit, it propagates in the form of an electromagnetic field outside the wires and straight into the electric … My intuition told me that electrons moving inside the wires move in the same way a ball falling from the sky towards the ground moves, therefore gaining kinetic energy along the way. …
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Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy

and I'm kind of wondering from where the water gets the energy to move in a horizonal path in the pipe at ground level. …
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