If I break a glass, what will happen to its free energy(gibbs or helmoholtz) ?

Question

If I break a glass, what will happen to its free energy(gibbs or helmoholtz) ?

Answer 1

Gibbs free energy is bound up inside the chemical composition of the material.

You will simply have broken glass.  The Gibbs energy is still there -- since it's still glass.  You would need to melt it, as in the recycling process, to get back any of that energy.  

The Helmholtz free energy measures the difference between internal energy and temperature * entropy.  So, before you break it, there is 0 free helmholtz energy.  Why?  The glass cannot do any work.  If it were filled with ice, perhaps it would have a changing entropy and thus could do work (ie, melt the ice).  But, a glass by itself has 0 Helmholtz free energy.  After you break it, the entropy has not increased, the temperature did not change and the internal energy is the same..  So, no change in Helmholtz energy.