kinetic energyin a sentence
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A large ball may not fall faster than a small one, but it has more kinetic energy.
kinetic energy = the energy a moving object has because of its motion
- The pendulum repeatedly converts potential energy to kinetic energy and then back.
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The conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy is what drives the roller coaster, and all of the kinetic energy you need for the ride is present once the coaster descends the first hill… Once you're underway, different types of wheels help keep the ride smooth.
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kinetic energy = energy a moving object has because of its motion
- A bullet, as I'm sure you already know, does what it does because the gun it's fired from gives it a large amount of kinetic energy.† (source)
- She is gliding down the antebellum tree-lined lanes of White Columns, one microplantation after another, still coasting on the residual kinetic energy boost that originated in the fuel in Studley the Teenager's gas tank.† (source)
- The boy is kinetic energy.† (source)
- And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added.† (source)
- CAROLINE STOOD AT THE BUS STOP NEAR THE CORNER OF Forbes and Braddock, watching the kinetic energy of the children on the playground, their happy shouts lifting up over the steady roar of the traffic.† (source)
- The toe of her boot shot up with full force and was transformed into kinetic energy in his crotch with a pressure of about 1,700 pounds per square inch.† (source)
- Kinetic energy as it hits is 6.25 x 10^12 joules—over six trillion joules.† (source)
- It seemed to her that some destroyer was moving soundlessly through the country and the lights were dying at his touch-someone, she thought bitterly, who had reversed the principle of the Twentieth Century motor and was now turning kinetic energy into static.† (source)
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- The conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy is what drives the roller coaster, and all of the kinetic energy you need for the ride is present once the coaster descends the first hill...Once you're underway, different types of wheels help keep the ride smooth.† (source)
- His heart still pounded its familiar, steady rhythm, but the blood being pushed through his veins seemed to thrum under her touch with the kinetic energy of a fire just about to catch.† (source)
- They were kinetic energy weapons.† (source)
- Unable to stop grinning, she ran her words together with kinetic energy.† (source)
- At all other times her body seemed to obey the physical law that kinetic energy increases mass.† (source)
- At that point, it doesn't matter how much kinetic energy they have leaving the gun.† (source)
- A Swedish engineer, Carl Gustav De Laval, had shown that by adding a divergent passage to a converging nozzle (one that necked down to a narrow throat) the expansion of the fluid (or gas) coming out of the throat would be transformed into jet kinetic energy.† (source)
- Electrical energy carried to the cars from the grid is converted to kinetic energy, some of which is converted to heat.† (source)
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