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Energy is possessed by virtue of position, shape or motion or all the three properties. Generally potential energy is at first stored in a body which is released as kinetic energy when the body is in motion. But suppose if a body is thrown upwards vertically its kinetic energy gets converted into potential energy.
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How kinetic energy and potential energy vary?
Well, the most potential energy is when your going slow or your stopped. The most kinetic energy is like at the bottom of a hill over the first hump in a rollarcoaster, when your going your fastest. Your speed and probably friction will affect it.
How do you convert potential energy into kinetic?
If you fired a bullet vertically upward, it would have kinetic energy at first, when it gets to the top of its travel this would all have been converted to potential energy.
Describe a stone falling off the tabletop in terms of both kinetic energy and potential energy?
Sitting on the table the stone has potential energy, relative to the ground, of weight times height, mgh. It has zero kinetic energy so its total energy is E = 0 + mgh. When it begins falling it loses potential energy (as it loses height) and gains kinetic energy ( as it picks up speed) so the sum stays the same as initially E = KE + PE = mgh. Just before it hits the ground all of its potential energy is gone and has been transformed into kinetic energy. So the kinetic energy at the bottom (1/2)mv^2 will equal the potential energy at the top.
How can energy be kinetic?
If you fired a bullet vertically upward, it would have kinetic energy at first, when it gets to the top of its travel this would all have been converted to potential energy.
The conversion of potential energy in coal into the kinetic energy that heats steam is an expression of?
the first law of thermodynamics
A roller coaster going down the first hill is an example of what type of energy?
It is kinetic energy because it is in motion.Jesus loves you! A car rolling down a hill is an example of which type of energy?kinetic...Potential energy
What happened to the gravitational potential energy the ball had after i dropped the ball?
Whenever an object falls, its potential energy is first of all converted to kinetic energy.
How does a roller coaster convert potential energy to kinetic energy and then back to potential energy again and again?
So the potential energy is the energy in the car at the top of the first slope. It changes into kinetic energy (Speed with mass) as it rolls down the hill. Then the electric motor winds it back up the hill, putting potential energy in the system again.
Which friction slows down moving bodies kinetic or static?
Friction reduce the velocity, hence, it affect kinetic energy. The potential energy from static pressure is then drawn to maintain the velocity (transformation of potential -> kinetic energy). We then see the friction reduce the static pressure but actually, it affect kinetic first.
Is a wound up toy kinetic energy?
Elastic Potential Energy It is both, when the toy is fully turned and awaiting for you to let go, it is at 100% potential energy. when you let go and it unwinds, the toys potential energy is transferred into kinetic, and depending on the toy, thermo and other forms of energy. Once the toy has fully exhausted its potential energy and fully unwounded itself, it is simply an object with no potential or kinetic energy. Always remember, energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred, and there is no such thing as a perpectual motion machine.
A pole -vaulter first converts kinetic energy into?
Elastic Potential Energy
What is the force used to pull a coaster down the first hill?
The potential energy that is released changes into kinetic energy.
