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Is lifting a weight considered kinetic energy?

Lifting a weight involves potential energy — not kinetic energy. Potential energy is stored energy that an object has due to its position or state, whereas kinetic energy is the energy of motion. Once the weight is dropped or released, it converts its potential energy into kinetic energy as it falls.


When Bruce lets go of the weight what happens to its energy?

When Bruce lets go of the weight, its potential energy is converted into kinetic energy as it falls due to gravity. This kinetic energy is transferred into other forms of energy, such as sound and heat, upon impact with the ground.


What type of energy is weight hanging from a tree?

Primarily potential energy (possibly a little bit of kinetic energy if it is swinging back and forth). If whatever it is hanging by is severed, it will fall - transitioning from potential to kinetic energy.


How is potential energy is used?

potential energy is the energy that an object has stored up. kinetic energy is an object in motion. :) hi ppl :)))))))


The weight pauses for a split second each time it reaches the high point of its swing. at that moment does the weight have potential or kinetic energy?

At the high point of its swing, the weight has potential energy but no kinetic energy because its velocity is momentarily zero. Potential energy is associated with an object's position or height relative to a reference point, while kinetic energy is related to its motion.


How are potential kinetic energy and total energy relate to one another?

Potential energy + kinetic energy = total energy. Potential energy is stored or positional energy; chemical energy stored in a battery, a large weight up high where we can get gravity to do work with it. Kinetic energy is energy of motion; energy = 1/2mv^2.


What energy does a weight gain if it is lifted?

It's probably kinetic because you have to move your arms up and down.


Did wind possesses both kinetic and potential energy?

Blowing wind has kinetic energy. This can be transformed into electrical energy using a turbine to transform the wind into rotational kinetic energy and a generator or alternator to convert the rotational kinetic energy to electrical energy. Water above a dam has potential energy from gravity and also from the weight of the water around it. Once it is moving or flowing down through the pipes it then has kinetic energy.


How do you know if an object's mechanical energy is equal to it's potential energy that it has no kinetic energy?

Because of the weight of an object


How is kinetic energy turned into potential?

One is a weight on an elastic string, bobbing up and down. Each down/up involves potential-kinetic-elastic-kinetic-potential conversions. A transfer would also include placing a heavy weight on a spring-loaded platform. The reduced gravitational potential of the weight is stored as compression energy in the spring, which will rebound if the weight is removed.


What energy transformation occurs in the pendulum clock?

In a pendulum clock, the potential energy stored in the raised weight or spring is converted into kinetic energy as the weight descends or spring unwinds. This kinetic energy is then transferred to the pendulum, causing it to swing back and forth. The energy is continuously converted between potential and kinetic as the pendulum oscillates, regulating the clock's movement.


What energy transformation happens when you lift a box from the floor to a shell?

Are you referring to the biological energy transformations involved in the body of a person actually lifting a box? Or are you referring to the act of imbuing an inanimate object with potential kinetic energy? If it is the latter; You are investing Potential Kinetic Energy in the box when you put it up on a shelf. If your body were 100% efficient, it should have expendeded as much energy in raising the box as the box then possesses. Because the box can fall, it will have the potential to transform its potential kinetic energy into actual kinetic energy, by virtue of its mass and velocity. It could do work, like falling on a lever which propelled a weight up a column and rang a bell on the top. If it is the former... I don't know.