Sample sentences for KINETIC ENERGY

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Definition

the energy a moving object has because of its motion

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.

kinetic energy = the energy a moving object has because of its motion

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.
Annenberg Learner -- Amusement Park Physics

kinetic energy = the energy a moving object has because of its motion

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.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
Unable to stop grinning, she ran her words together with kinetic energy.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
At all other times her body seemed to obey the physical law that kinetic energy increases mass.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
Kinetic energy as it hits is 6.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
They were kinetic energy weapons.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
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.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky
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.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
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.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
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.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
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.
Annenberg Learner (Foundation) -- Amusement Park Physics - Rollercoaster Pages
At that point, it doesn't matter how much kinetic energy they have leaving the gun.
Ann Leckie -- Ancillary Justice
Electrical energy carried to the cars from the grid is converted to kinetic energy, some of which is converted to heat.
Annenberg Learner -- Amusement Park Physics
The boy is kinetic energy.
Nicola Yoon -- Everything, Everything
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.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky
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.
Annenberg Learner (Foundation) -- Amusement Park Physics - Rollercoaster Pages
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.
Annenberg Learner -- Amusement Park Physics

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