Compressed air car The principal disadvantages are the steps of energy conversion and transmission, because each inherently has loss. For combustion engine cars, the energy is lost when chemical energy in fossil fuels is converted by the engine to mechanical energy. For electric cars, a power plant's electricity (from whatever source) is transmitted to the car's batteries, which then transmits the electricity to the car's motor, which converts it to mechanical energy. For compressed-air cars, the power plant's electricity is transmitted to a compressor, which mechanically compresses the air into the car's tank. The car's engine then converts the compressed air to mechanical
Potential energy of protein apart. The potential energy contribution of this interaction is defined over S, set of atoms with van der Waals interaction, as: E = Σ ε [ (σ/r) - 2(σ/r)] where: r distance between atoms σ distance at Van der Waals energy is minimum Potential energy of protein Internal potential energy of a molecule in molecular mechanics is described by a system of functions known as forced field. The potential energy usually includes several terms: E = E+ E+ E + E +E When two atoms are connected by a chemical bond, they tend to maintain a fixed distance. The fixed