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Why is it that when you hit a nail with a hammer the nail get warm?
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When you hit a nail into a board using a hammer the head of the nail gets warm in terms of kinetic and thermal energy describe why you think this happens?
The kinetic energy transfers from the hammer to the nail. The molecules inside the nail move rapidly and create heat.
Describe the types of energy generated when you hit a nail with a hammer?
when you raise the hammer at the top of your upswing the hammer has potential energy when you lower the hammer to hit a nail , the hammer has potential energy.
How do you keep nail in wall?
You hit it with a hammer
What is vibrating when you strike a nail with hammer?
Nothing is likely to be vibrating before the nail is hit. Afterwards, probably everything is vibrating - the nail, the hammer, and whatever the nail is stuck in.
What is a phrase of mecanical energy?
If you hit a nail with a hammer.
If you hit a magnetized nail with a hammer what will happen?
The electrons will fall out of line, demagnetizing the nail.
Why does a nail head get hot when you pound it into a board with a hammer?
its called friction when you hit it with the hammer the two surfaces rub together aka the hammer head and the nail head
How do the magnitude direction and point of application of force affect a nail being driven into a piece of wood with a hammer?
If a nail is not hit square on the top by the hammer it will bend and there is a likelihood that the wood will be damaged by hammer marks or the bent nail.
Why does your left thumb nail bed hurt?
Because you hit it with a hammer.
When you use the hammer and hit the nail there are force on the both?
yes indeed
What are the different tenses of the word strike?
I will strike the nail with the hammer. I strike the nail with the hammer. I struck the nail with the hammer. I have struck the nail with the hammer.
Why does the head of a nail get warm when you hammer it?
The Plank is raised to a certain height to hit the nail. Thus potential energy of the plank is converted into kinetic energy as well as some amount of heat energy's drive the nail into some wooden body. So the nail become warm.
