What is energy, in its simple form?

[IronHead]

Energy is the ability to do work .
So you must be more specific. You must mean electric energy.
Now this can get strange because there are all kinds of electric energy.

Balancing two electric charges can do work.

A falling object can do work.

Kinetic energy can do work.

Balancing matter with black matter will delete this planet.

Specific enough?

Oh yeah , that was cool . Thanks dude




Just Learn It
IronHead

[bitRAKE]

Nothing is not energy - there is no matter - only energy form. All energy is in motion.

[Low-Q]

So, if I understand right, all type of energy is in some kind of motion.
Do magnets have any movable energy in it, or are they just static?

Br. Vidar

[fleebell]

Magnets have movable energy yes, just about everything does to some extent, but I think the answer to the question you are asking is they are static. You can't really alter a permanent magnet's  strength or direction by doing something to the magnet itself (well, actually you can but generally end up with a messed up magnet so there's not much point in doing that)  , you have to alter the field itself  with something else external to it.

As an example : You can use a magnet as part of  an electric circuit such as battery - wire- lightbulb- wire - magnet - battery and it will have very little effect on the magnetic field of the magnet except for the small field  created by the flow of the current itself. This will either add or subtract from the magnet's own field depending on direction of current flow and magnet orientation.

   Only if you tried to put too much through it and heated it too hot due to resistance would it really have any other effect and then just cause it to quit being a magnet.

[Low-Q]

If this is true, there is no point making a magnet motor, if a magnet cannot do any work by its own, right?

Vidar