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===> A stone or a Baseball tossed straight up.

-- Leaves your hand with speed ---> kinetic energy

-- Slows down as it sails higher ---> loses kinetic energy

-- But gains potential energy as it moves higher.

-- The kinetic energy it's losing is changing into potential energy.

-- Eventually, it stops rising, when all of its kinetic energy is gone.

-- On the way down, its potential energy turns back into kinetic energy,

until it meets the ground with a healthy 'thunk'.

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Answers #1 and #2:

A rock falling off a cliff.

(When the rock is on the cliff it represents a potential energy, but when it falls off, the kinetic energy is represented by the hole formed when the rock hit the soil, but it would be a good for nothing energy)

Another example is represented by a waterfall. The water that has yet not fallen down is the potential energy. When it falls and make a turbine linked to an alternator to rotate, the kinetic energy is transformed into electricity. So, we can say that this kinetic energy is valid as a form of energy. A rock falling off from a cliff is nothing but a potential energy....because when any kind of energy isn't able to perform a useful work, it would be a useless energy, a wasted one and doesn't count as a form of energy.

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The definition of Kinetic Energy is 1/2MV2. 'M' is the mass of the object,

and 'V' is its speed. Notice that the formula doesn't include any coefficient,

variable, or term of any kind that depends on whether or not the energy

accomplishes any useful purpose, or improves anyone's life. The mere fact

that a mass is moving is sufficient to establish the presence of Kinetic Energy.

As soon as the rock rolls off the edge of the cliff and begins to lose altitude,

it also begins to lose potential energy, and the steadily decreasing potential

energy is matched at every instant by its kinetic energy, as revealed by its

increasing speed as it falls. If it's moving, at any speed in any direction, then

it has kinetic energy.

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When a pendulum is swinging, the energy is switched from kinetic to potential and back again twice in each cycle. Apart from the energy lost to friction that eventually stops the pendulum, the exchange of energy is a continuous process.

Throw a ball up (100% kinetic), and when it stops due to gravity, you have all that energy as (gravitational) potential.

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One e.g. of potential energy changing into kenetic energy is a wind up car after it has been wound up.

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Riding a bike down a hill. You gain potential energy on the way up, but on the way down you lose that potential energy and gain an equal amount of kinetic energy.

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A ball being kicked with enough force to roll uphill is an example of kinetic energy turning into potential energy.

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A falling object.

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