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What form of energy does a car sitting at the top of a hill have?
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Energy in the form of moition is?
The energy you put into something to make it move at a steady speed is called KINETIC ENERGY. It's the Kinetic Energy of a car that makes the brakes hot when you try to stop. The kinetic energy of the moving car becomes heat in the brakes of the stationary car which has lost its kinetic energy. There are two ways to get a car to the top of a hill. One is to start at the bottom and drive the car to the top and then stop again. This way, the engine pushed the car up the hill. The other way is to start a long way before the hill and build up speed along a flat road. Then you can turn off the engine and the car will coast to the top of the hill before it stops. This way, the engine put a lot of Kinetic Energy into the weight of the car before it got to the hill, and it was that Kinetic Energy which was used to get the car up the hill.
Which has greater gravitational potential energy a car sittknv on top of a hill or a bowling ball sitting kn top of the same hill?
Gravitational potential energy is proportional to the object's height and its mass. So if the car has more mass than the bowling ball has, then it also has more gravitational potential energy.
3 examples of gravitational potential energy?
Car on hill a car on a hill a pecil on a hill
Why does a car parked at the top of a hill have more potential energy then a car parked at the bottom of a hill?
Yes, More potential energy yES
What does it mean when you put the car in reverse and it slides forward?
usually means your sitting on a hill..
As a car rolls down a hill where would the motion and gravitational energy be equal?
As a car rolls down a hill, the motion and gravitational potential energy(GPE) will be equal when the kinetic energy is equal to the potential energy.
What point in the ride is the kinetic energy of the car zero?
The kinetic energy of the car becomes zero when the car halts. If it halts on top of a hill, the energy changes to potential energy.
How can Potential energy and Kinetic energy be observed in your everyday world?
when a car drive up a hill it gains potential energy and when it comes down the hill it gains kinetic energy.
A car rolling down the hill is an example of?
Kinetic energy.
What happens to the potential energy of a car parked at the top of the hill if you double the mass of the car?
The potential energy will double too.
What form of energy does a car use?
A car uses mechanical energy.
What has greater kinetic energy a 1 lb ball rolling down a hill a 200 lb person running down a hill or a car driving down a hill?
A car.
