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A blazing bonfire is the release of chemical energy.

Kinetic energy is that energy that is part of a body because of its motion.
Potential energy is that energy that is part of a body because of its position in a gravity field. kinetic and potential energy can interchange.

However the energy in a bonfire is trapped radiation energy (sunlight) stored chemically in the substance of the wood and released by a chemical reaction.

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The candle ispotential energy because kinetic is moving energy .

actually isn't fire moving? if you blow on it wouldn't it be moving?

Well it would potential energy if it wasn't lit but if it was lit it could be either light energy or kinetic energy


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Kinetic energy is better thought of as energy being used. Potential is energy being stored; it is not being used.

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Neither, it is electrical energy. Typically when you learn about energy being stored as potential energy, then released as kinetic energy, they're using moving objects as an example.

But if you want a good analogy, you could think of it like this: during the time leading up to a lightning strike, there's a growing differential between the electric potential in the cloud, and in the ground - this differential is potential energy. When the difference is great enough and the lightning discharges between them, you're releasing the potential energy as electrical energy.

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12y ago

technically everything has kinetic energy...

But to choose one i think fire has potential energy because it has stored heat that will be transferred upon whatever/whomever comes in contact with it.

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Water that is falling is having its potential energy (owing to its height - the fact that it has been "lifted" somehow) converted into kinetic energy. We frequently use the kinetic energy in a mechanical application to drive a wheel, a turbine blade or the like.

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Neither, it's a chemical reaction, it has nothing to do with mechanics, and thus nothing to do with kinetic or potential mechanical energy.

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Neither, it's heat energy.

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kinetic energy

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potential

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