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Certainly, because kinetic energy is determined by both mass and speed.

If I'm traveling at 1/2 the speed that you are, but I have 4 times as much mass

as you have, then our kinetic energies are equal.

And for an example in the other direction . . . If my mass is only 1% of yours,

but I'm traveling at 10 times your speed, then our kinetic energies are equal.

That's how a bullet or a Baseball can knock a grown person off his feet.

Kinetic Energy = 1/2 (mass) x (speed)2

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