A system is a group of objects that’s analyzed as one unit. Consider a car moving along a road that has a flat section and a hill. The energy of the car at any given time is equal to the energy that its engine provides minus the energy that the car. When the car moves along the flat section, all of its energy is , which is calculated from its velocity and . When the car moves uphill, some of its energy is transformed to , which is calculated from its gravity, height, and .