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It will have kinetic energy from its velocity, and potential gravitational energy from how high it is above the earth. If it is still being driven by a rocket engine, these amounts of energy will be increasing. If the engine has stopped it is in free flight, and will continue to rise until reaching maximum height and minimum speed, then it will start to pick up speed as it falls. The total energy will be constant once the engine has stopped. Of course in practice air resistance has some effect, some energy will be given up to the air in frictional heating.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 11y agoSitting on the pad before launch, it has a huge amount of potential energy, plus
it's loaded full of chemical energy in the tanks, and there's electrical energy zipping
through it in a million different places.
After launch, the whole idea is to convert most of the chemical energy into kinetic energy.
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∙ 10y agoKinetic energy is energy in use. So when a rocket is being used, it is releasing kinetic energy. Before a rocket is used, it has potential energy. Once ignited, the rocket is using kinetic energy.
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∙ 11y agoIt moves forward, because it pushes gases out backward. For more information, do some reading on Newton's Third Law.
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∙ 12y agoeasy answer yourself
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∙ 8y agoHeat energy.
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∙ 11y agoPotential energy
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∙ 8y agoIts fuel.
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How many stages of a rocket are there?
What kind of Rocket?
What kind of rocket was Apollo 11?
It was a liquid fuel rocket.
A rocket uses an engine that creates thrust through the combustion of a liquid fuel and an oxidizer. What kind of rocket is this?
Chemical rocket
A rocket uses an engine that creates thrust throughout the combustion of a liquid fuel and an oxidizer what kind of rocket is this?
Chemical rocket
What does Gasoline and rocket fuel store?
They both contain potential energy, so the answer is "energy" .
The chemical potential energy of a rocket is converted to what kind of energy?
The Chemical Potential Energy stored in a rocket will be converted to Kinetic Energy because the chemical fuel will launch the rocket into motion (Kinetic Energy).
What kind of energy in the fuel of a rocket engine?
potential chemical energy
How does a rocket stay in the air and not go off in space?
It takes a lot of energy to put a rocket "into space". Most rockets don't have that kind of energy available, so it's not really an issue.
What is the energy source for a rocket?
Rocket fuels are used. It contains chemical energy
How does a rocket gain potential energy?
There is more than one kind of potential energy. A rocket, when fueled, has chemical potential energy. When it burns its fuel, it loses chemical potential energy but gains gravitational potential energy. If it then falls back to the ground it loses gravitational potential energy but gains in heat and kinetic energy, until it burns up or crashes.
How many stages of a rocket are there?
What kind of Rocket?
What kind of oil does a rocket use?
Rocket oil
When rocket reenters the atmosphere its nose cone beomes hotwhere does this heat energy come from?
From the rocket's movement energy (formally called kinetic energy). As the rocket slows down through friction, its kinetic energy is converted mainly to heat energy.
What kind of rocket was Apollo 11?
It was a liquid fuel rocket.
The fuel used in a rocket is energy stored as?
chemical energy
What is the energy source a rocket?
momentum
As a rocket rises its kinetic energy changes. At the time the rocket reaches its highest point most of the kinetic energy of the rocket has been and mdash?
When an object - rocket or otherwise - rises, its kinetic energy gets converted to gravitational potential energy. At its highest point, if it rises directly upwards, all the kinetic energy will be converted to gravitational potential energy. However, its movement may also have a sideways component; in that case, not all the kinetic energy is converted to potential energy.
