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What does kinetic energy mean?

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Noun
  1. (physics) The energy possessed by an object because of its motion, equal (nonrelativistically) to one half the mass of the body times the square of its velocity.
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The walker's muscles must do this amount of work, to replace the lost kinetic energy, in every step.
One way energy is conserved is through the transformation of an object's potential energy into kinetic energy.
As the beam bit into the front of the missile launcher, the protons shed their immense kinetic energy in the form of infrared radiation.
The molecules convert their kinetic energy into potential energy when they rise into the air just like the ball did.
As the temperature of a substance is increased, so is the kinetic energy of the molecules.
When bonds are broken in a chemical reaction, the reactants involved are colliding with enough kinetic energy to break the atoms apart.

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