Kinetic energy

• Kinetic energy

  The energy that an object possesses due to its motion
• Kinetic energy

  • Depends on an object's speed
  • Depends on an object's mass
• Faster an object is moving


  More kinetic energy it will have
• More mass an object has


  More kinetic energy it will have
• Calculating kinetic energy

  1. Use the equation: E_k = 1/2 m v^2

  2. E_k = kinetic energy

  3. m = mass (in kg)

  4. v = velocity (in m/s)