0
Does something have grater speed when it has more potential energy or less?
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
It can be a little complicated but I'll do my best to explain.
Quick Vocab: potential energy - the stored energy in an object because of its position, shape, or condition. Kinetic energy - the energy of an object due to its motion. The more potential energy an object has the more Kinetic energy it will have. Basically when the object is moved the potential energy is released and becomes kinetic energy. As the kinetic energy (speed) increases the Potential energy decreases.
So yes, when the potential energy decreases the speed increases.
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What happens to potential energy when the speed is increased?
Potential energy is not affected by speed.
Does speed affect gravitational potential energy of an object?
Does speed 'effect' the gravitational potential energy of an object? No, but gravitational potential energy can be converted into kinetic energy - so the gravitational potential energy can effect the speed. Ep = mgh Energy Potential = mass * 9.81 (gravity) * height Speed / Velocity is absent from that equation.
As speed increases what happens to potential energy?
Potential energy is unrelated to speed.
What happens to the potential energy as the kinetic of an object increase?
An object's potential energy doesn't depend on its speed. You can do anything you like with the object's speed, and it has no effect on potential energy.
How does increasing speed affect potential energy?
Increasing the speed will increase the KINETIC energy, not the potential energy. Of course, the potential energy may eventually be converted into kinetic energy, for example if the object moves upwards.
What happens to potential energy if speed doubles?
Potential energy decreases while kinetic energy increases as a car goes down a hill without braking.
Explain how the maximum height is related to the maximum potential energy?
This question makes sense in the context of something like a pendulum. At the top of its swing, a pendulum is at maximum height, is not moving and so has zero kinetic energy, and has maximum potential energy since all its energy is potential. As it falls, it gradually moves with increasing speed, so its potential energy is being converted to kinetic energy. At the bottom of the swing, it is moving at maximum speed, and all its energy is kinetic, none is potential, Then it starts to move upwards again, and its kinetic energy is gradually converted back to potential energy.
What are characteristics of speed?
potential and kinetic energy
Is it possible for a ball to also have potential energy as it is rolling?
Yes, if it is rolling at a constant speed it has potential energy.
What makes a ball speed up when it is traveling down an inclined plane?
The conversion of Potential Energy (the energy something has as a result of its position in a gravity field) into Kinetic energy (the energy of a mass in movement).
How does increasing speed affect an objects potential energy?
It doesn't. Increasing speed affects the KINETIC energy.
Increasing the speed of an object does what to the potential energy?
The potential (kinetic) energy increases E = (m*v2)/2
