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What happens to kinetic energy and potential energy of a car when it accelerates up a hill?
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∙ 9y ago
What happens to kinetic energy when your car stops at the end of the track?
It's all about energy?
The first question to ask yourself is," What stops your car?
Most people would say, "The brakes stop the car."
What happens to the brake as the car is stopped?
Due to friction, they heat up and the brake pads wear out?
What does it mean for brake pads to wear out?
The brake pads get thinner as they rub on the spinning rotor.
What causes them to get thinner?
The friction breaks the chemical bonds in the material of which they are made.
The Kinetic energy is converted into heat and used to break the bonds between the molecules in the material of which the brake pads are made.
If you push hard enough on the brake pedal, the tires will stop turning, and the car will skid to a stop. In this case, the tires will give off heat due to friction and the tires will wear thin as the chemical bonds between the molecules in the material of which they are made are broken.
Good site for explanation of brakes!
http://www.familycar.com/brakes.htm
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 11y agoAny time energy is lost to friction - this includes a car gradually slowing down, or brakes being applied - most of the kinetic energy is converted to heat.
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∙ 11y agoKinetic energy is stored Gravitatinal potential energy
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∙ 9y ago-- As the velocity of the car increases, its kinetic energy also increases.
-- As the car rises to higher elevation, its gravitational potential energy increases.
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∙ 9y agoIt will be converted mainly to gravitational potential energy. Part of the energy will also be wasted due to friction, i.e., converted mainly to heat.
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∙ 13y agoIncreasing potential energy.
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∙ 15y agokinetic energy
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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.
What type of energy is kinetic and potential?
Kinetic and potential energy are types of mechanical energy.
Can objects mechanical energy be equal to its gravitational potential energy?
Yes. Mechanical energy is the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy; this includes gravitational potential energy.
Execute a swan dive would be kinetic energy or potential energy?
Potential energy
Differentiate kinetic energy from potential energy?
Kinetic energy is the energy something has because it is moving. Potential energy is the energy something has because of its position or configuration.
What is the initial transfer of energy that accelerates the rock down the side of the mountain?
Potential energy is converted into kinetic energy
Does kinetic energy decreases as a box accelerates down an inclined plane?
Kinetic energy increases; potential energy decreases, because the object is now in motion
What happens to potential energy that is not converted to kinetic energy?
If potential energy is not converted into kinetic energy (or into any other type of energy) then it remains potential. Potential energy does not expire.
When Bruce lets go of the weight what happens to its energy?
When an object falls down, potential energy is converted to kinetic energy.
The kinetic or potential energy associated with the motion and position of an object is?
This is actually two questions. Energy relating to the motion of an object is kinetic energy. Energy related to its position is potential energy (as with a brick suspended at some distance above the ground). Release the brick and its potential energy is converted to kinetic energy. The two are complementary. As the brick accelerates toward the ground its kinetic energy increases; as the distance decreases during that acceleration, it's potential energy decreases.
What happens to its potential energy as it passes to the lowest point?
potential energy changes to kinetic energy
What happens to an object's potential energy as it gains kinetic energy?
It's potential energy decreases.
What kind of energy transformation happens in a waterfall?
kinetic energy
What happens to molecules as their potential energy increase?
will be transformed into kinetic energy
Dropping an iron ball is kinetic energy?
Anything in motion has kinetic energy. KE=1/2 m v^2 The ball starts with potential energy due to its height above the ground. The energy is converted to kinetic energy as the object accelerates.
What are the two types of mechanical energy?
Potential energy and kinetic energy. mechanical energy is the energy of motion(kinetic energy)or the potential of motion(potential energy) so i would say-kinetic and potential energy
The potential energy of a freely falling body decreases continuouslyWhat happens to the loss of potential energy?
It becomes kinetic energy. And as an object goes up against gravity, it gains potential energy and loses kinetic energy.
