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is converted to potential energy as it goes higher.

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How does kenetic and potential energy affect soccer in general?

In soccer, you have a soccer ball. The ball has potential energy. When you kick the ball, the potential becomes kinetic energy and the ball moves. However, your foot has potential energy as well (all matter has potential energy because all matter has the potential to move). When you kick with your foot that potential energy becomes kinetic energy. When the soccer ball is on the ground it actually has no potential energy because potential energy is only associated with height. When the ball is kicked however the kinetic energy from the player is passed on to the ball. That kinetic energy makes the ball move. If the ball is kicked into the air then the kinetic energy is passed on and some of that kinetic energy transforms into potential energy and kinetic.


Energy can be formally defined as?

Kinetic energy is the amount of energy in an object due to its motion. It is defined as the amount of work that was required to accelerate the object from rest to its current velocity. In classical Newtonian physics, kinetic energy is calcualted in the following equation.Ek=1/2mv2Where:Ek is the kinetic energy of a body;m is the mass of the body; andv is the velocity of the body.Note that kinetic energy is always relative to the observer's frame of reference. For example, a girl holding a ball still would tell you the ball has no kinetic energy, because it is not moving - it has a velocity of zero, and according to the above equation, the kinetic energy must also be zero. Even if she were in a moving car holding the ball, she would still tell you (correctly) that the ball has no kinetic energy, because from her perspective, the ball is not moving. But from a bystander's perspective on the sidewalk, the ball (and the girl, the car, etc.) would indeed have kinetic energy, because, from the bystander's frame of reference, the ball is moving.


When a baseball player throws a baseball he transfers kinetic energy from his body to kinetic energy in the ball Where does the baseball player get his kinetic energy from?

The kinetic energy comes from potential energy, which he got from ATP energy, which is produced through food. Potential energy is converted to kinetic energy after the muscles contract and relax. Sources: School science


If you toss a ball in the air at what point does it have the most kinetic energy?

As soon as the ball has been released.In this case, the energy starts off purely kinetic; dependent on motion. Once the ball has reached it's highest point, it has converted to potential energy; dependent on height. It then resumes falling back to kinetic energy. This is best shown by a graph of energy over time where Potential energy is a parabola opened down (frown face) and Kinetic energy is a parabola opened up (smiley face).With this you can also note that Kinetic Energy + Potential Energy = mechanical energy. These two graphs added together should make a straight line for Mechanical energy (in simplistic demonstration).


Can an object have kinetic energy and potential energy at the same time?

a body cannot have both kinetic and potential energy at the same time because, a moving body can only possess kinetic energy at a time, but potential energy is one possessed by a body with respect to its possition.

Related questions

Amy is at basketball practice She is about to shoot a free throw When she releases the ball?

the ball will have kinetic energy and potential energy.


Do you experience impulse when you throw a ball?

Yes, when you throw a ball, you do experience an impulse. This is because you use force to exchange kinetic energy with the ball.


Amy is at basketball practice. She is about to shoot a free throw. When Amy releases the ball?

the ball will have kinetic energy and potential energy.


How is energy conserved when you throw a ball into the air and then catch it?

The summation of potential and kinetic energy is constant


What type of energy transformation occurs when you throw a ball in the air and catch it?

well im not 100% sure but id probably say kinetic energy.


What are some forces that act on a ball when you throw it in the air?

Kinetic energy, momentum, gravity.


How do you make kinetic energy?

Kinetic Energy is moving energy. Here's a small experiment: 1. Throw a ball in the air (Straight up) 2. Watch it 3. When starts falling down, that's kinetic energy


How can you increase the amount of kinetic energy in a clay ball that you are throwing?

kinetic energy=1/2 x mass x velocity^2 so if you increase the mass or the speed that you throw it the kinetic energy will be increased.


How do you make kinetic?

Kinetic Energy is moving energy. Here's a small experiment: 1. Throw a ball in the air (Straight up) 2. Watch it 3. When starts falling down, that's kinetic energy


What is the energy in an object about to fall?

the energy in an object about to fall is potential energy then kinetic energy because when the object is not falling, it has potential energy but when it's actually falling, it has kinetic energy.


when you throw a ball at awall, what force makes it go for ward?

kinetic energy makes it go forward


What are the forms of the energy?

There are two main forms of energy. Kinetic energy is the energy of motion, whereas potential energy is energy denoted because of an objects position. Kinetic energy would be if you throw a ball, it has kinetic energy because it is moving. Potential energy would be if the ball is on top of the Empire State Building, because it COULD fall off but it hasn't yet.