The more potential energy an object has, the more kinetic energy it will have. Here's a little something that you can do at your house. Fill up a water balloon with water. once your done with that, drop the ballon from about a foot from the ground. release the ball and you will see that it will not pop. once your done with that, pick up the balloon and put it above your head and release. first think this, make sure you dont want to get wet. anyways you will see that the balloon will pop. it had higher potential energy when it was above your head and it had more kinetic energy. when it was closer to the ground it had less potential energy and less kinetic energy. that's why it did not pop.
History
A roller coaster train going down hill represents merely a complex case as a body is descending an inclined plane. Newton's first two laws relate force and acceleration, which are key concepts in roller coaster physics. At amusement parks, Newton's laws can be applied to every ride. These rides range from 'The Swings' to The 'Hammer'. Newton was also one of the developers of calculus which is essential to analyzing falling bodies constrained on more complex paths than inclined planes. A roller coaster rider is in an gravitational field except with the Principle of Equivalence.
Potential Energy
Potential energy is the same as stored energy. The "stored" energy is held within the gravitational field. When you lift a heavy object you exert energy which later will become kinetic energy when the object is dropped. A lift motor from a roller coaster exerts potential energy when lifting the train to the top of the hill. The higher the train is lifted by the motor the more potential energy is produced; thus, forming a greater amount if kinetic energy when the train is dropped. At the top of the hills the train has a huge amount of potential energy, but it has very little kinetic energy.
Kinetic Energy
The word "kinetic" is derived from the Greek word meaning to move, and the word "energy" is the ability to move. Thus, "kinetic energy" is the energy of motion --it's ability to do work. The faster the body moves the more kinetic energy is produced. The greater the mass and speed of an object the more kinetic energy there will be. As the train accelerates down the hill the potential energy is converted into kinetic energy. There is very little potential energy at the bottom of the hill, but there is a great amount of kinetic energy.
Theory
When the train is at the top and bottom of the hill there is not any potential or kinetic energy being used at all. The train at the bottom of the first drop should have enough energy to get back up the height of the lift hill. The "Act of Faith" in riding these amazing rides which seems more of a phenomena that is only a theory. In practices, the train never could make it back up the hill because of dissipative forces. Friction and air resistance, and even possible mid-course breaks, are dissipative forces causing the theory to be changed but not destroyed. These forces make it impossible for the train to have enough energy to make it back up the lift hill's height. In the absence of the dissipative forces the potential and kinetic energies(mechanical energy) will remain the same. Since the mechanical energy is destroyed by the forces, the first hill is always the highest
Kinetic energy gives out energy while in the other hand potential energy means energy that has been stored. Energy can be stored or released in joules.
Both are mechanical force.
The difference between potential and kinetic energy is that potential is energy that is waiting to be utilized, such as a battery, a car on a hill, or food. Kinetic energy is potential energy that has been put to use, so the electricity from a battery, a car rolling down a hill, and using food energy to run are all examples of kinetic energy.
Kinetic energy is energy related to movement. The formula is (1/2) mass times velocity squared. Potential energy is energy of position. The formula for gravitional potential energy is mgh (mass times gravitation times height).
it is kinetic because it involves releasing the energy.
Chemical energy is a type of potential energy.
no, kinetic energy is the energy below so if u hold a ball up in the air it has most potential energy but if u drop the ball the potential energy goes down and the kinetic energy goes up.
Both are mechanical force.
potential is the stored energy and kinetic energy is the energy of movement.
When potiental increases, kinetic decreases and vice versa.
Hold a rock in the air ... it has potential energy. Drop it ... the potential energy will be converted into kinetic energy. It hits the ground and stop ... the kinetic energy will be converted into thermal energy. Note that the total energy in each case is the same.
Kinetic and potential energy are a type of energy, not a measurement of distance.
Kinetic is energy of motion. Potential energy is stored energy
Work is the quantity of energy being transfered (i.e. potential to kinetic). It is due to work that energy is transfered between potential and kinetic and vice versa. This is an attribute of the first law of thermodynamics. Energy is also the ability to do work
It is potential energy. It becomes kinetic when a bond is broken.
Upward motion on a roller coaster converts kinetic energy into potential energy. Downward motion converts potential energy into kinetic energy. Forward motion is a result of excess potential enegy converted into kinetic energy that cannot be expended while falling.
velocity squared
kinetic is in motion and potential energy means it is still
Potential is stored energy and Kinetic is just simple movement like windmills are powerd with Kinetic energy. They are both energy.