How are kinetic and potential energy different?
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Kinetic energy is energy in motion and potential energy is energy at rest.
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Potential energy is stored energy. Once you'll know the potential energy of things, you can make use of this in many applications. It just like knowing your potential to burp many times, you'll show this off to your friends to be cool. Or knowing the potential of your dog to bark and bully someone, you'll bring your dog to your enemies to scare them away!\n\nOn a more serious side, knowing the potential energy of your food (through calories content) will let you know how much energy can you get if you are going to eat them. So, when you are going to have lots of physical activities, you are going to eat these energy giving foods to keep you going.
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d)\notherwise some of work transforms to heat which is potential energy not kinetic.\nfor example when you kick the wall, acting forces are not elastic and do not rise kinetic energy of your feet or wall.
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potential cannot be associated with a non conservative force. potential energy is the energy which is stored inside the body when you do some work against that force. If it is a non conservative force, than the work done to move something to the same point through different paths will be different. Which means that potential at a given point may have more than one value which is practically impossible. That's why potential can never be associated with a non conservative force/field.
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The short answer is that mechanical energy involves motion of a mechanism as opposed to electrical, chemical, nuclear, heat, and light energy, etc.  As such, it exists in two forms; potential and kinetic energy.  Potential energy is energy of position.  For example, it takes mechanical energy to lift a 100 pound weight one foot (100 ft-lbs of energy) and the system can give up the same amount of energy (less friction) returning to its original position.  Compressing a spring or even gas in a cylinder can also store potential energy that can be returned.  Kinetic energy is energy of motion (1/2mv**2 i.e., one half the mass times the velocity squared).  Energy (including mechanical energy) can be converted to other forms.  For example if you lift one pound of water 778 feet (778 ft-lbs), its potential energy can be converted by dropping it back to ground.  Before release it has maximum potential energy and minimum kinetic energy.  Just before it splatters, it has minimum potential energy and maximum kinetic energy.  Upon splattering, the kinetic energy of the whole mass is converted to kinetic energy of the molecules and the mass heats up one degree F.  Kinetic energy oof motion can also be stored in a rotating flywheel.
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energy is the capacity that an object has for performing work.  Work is a force times a distance.  A similar comparison might be your bank account balance and dollars.  While both are related and have the same units, your bank account is the capacity that you have to spend money.  The big difference is of course, you can never have a negative balance on the amount of energy in a system.
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(The total energy) = (kinetic energy) +(potential energy)\n\nAt the start, most of the energy is potential energy. \n\nAs you slide down, then the potential energy decreases and the kinetic energy increases. \n\nThere is some energy dissipated by friction, that turns into heat. But without friction, the total energy at the bottom of the slide is the same as it was at the top of the slide.
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Heat is the kinetic energy of molecular motion. The molecules of a hot object are in rapid motion; the hotter, the higher the average speed and the greater the thermal energy. If the object is gaseous the motion consists of free-path travel and collisions with other molecules. If it is liquid the paths between collisions are shorter, and if solid the motion is vibrational with no secular movement.
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The potential energy of a system is the energy which was spent to constitute the system from bringing its constituents closer\nto each other against the forces among them and this energy is stored in the syetem. The same way the interatomic energy is \nthe enrgy which was spent to bring the atoms closer against the vanderwaal forces.
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Not always. If the object is in motion, then no. The total energy, aka total mechanical energy is always constant due to the Law of Conservation and Energy. It depends on the problem. Certainly,if you know the total mechanical energy in the system than you can find a variable for the kinetic energy or gravitational potential energy,assuming you given other variables.
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There is potential energy and kinetic energy.  Kinetic energy is the energy that something has from motion.  It's equation is E=1/2*m*v(squared) where m=mass and v=velocity.  For potential energy there are many forms.  Gravity E=mass*height*gravity, Electric and magnetic fields are potential energy.  And nuclear energy E=m*c(squared) which is the rest potential energy that anything with mass will have.  There is also energy from light E=h*nu, nu=frequency h=planck's constant.  There is also chemical potential energy which is the energy contained within molecules.
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Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy in a substance. A catalyst reduces the activation energy required to go through a reaction. Energy is still usually required though. At lower temperature, there is a lower amount of energy so the process is slowed.
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A. height and weight. Potential energy is the energy contained in an object due to its position in a force field (such as a gravitational field), and has nothing to do with speed (which would be kinetic energy). Thus you can eliminate options C and D. Further, energy is defined as the ability to do work, and work is simply force*distance. Since the weight of an object would be applied over a greater distance if the object fell from higher up than if it fell from a lower distance, height does influence potential energy, which means the only remaining option is A.\n\nBTW, about B - it might seem that potential energy also depends on mass since that will affect the weight of the object, but if you changed the mass of an object without changing its weight (by varying the gravity in inverse proportion to the mass), the potential energy would not change. Conversely, there's no way to change either the object's height or weight while holding the other constant without changing its potential energy, which is why A is right and B is wrong.
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If the isolated atom is a monatomic gas the energy is equal to the kinetic energy which is (3/2)(kb)T where kb is Boltzmann's constant.\n\nThis also assumes that the gas is ideal, which is safe for an isolated atom since you can completely discount intermolecular interactions.
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No because of Kinetic energy.\n\nLesson 1: Basic Terminology and Concepts\nKinetic Energy\nKinetic energy is the energy of motion. An object which has motion - whether it be vertical or horizontal motion - has kinetic energy. There are many forms of kinetic energy - vibrational (the energy due to vibrational motion), rotational (the energy due to rotational motion), and translational (the energy due to motion from one location to another). To keep matters simple, we will focus upon translational kinetic energy. The amount of translational kinetic energy (from here on, the phrase kinetic energy will refer to translational kinetic energy) which an object has depends upon two variables: the mass (m) of the object and the speed (v) of the object. The following equation is used to represent the kinetic energy (KE) of an object.
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potential energy is energy that has not yet been produced, for example a bullet has a certain amount of potential energy, meaning that if you put it in a gun and shoot it, the bullet flying out of the gun has the potential to produce a given amount of Kinetic energy, or imagine a ball on the top of a hill, the ball has potential energy, meaning if you give it a slight push it will start to roll downhill thus producing Kinetic energy.\nso "energy potential" is how much energy it could develop if you shoot the bullet out of the gun.\n"kinetic energy" is how much energy the flying bullet has, to do damage.
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Both.  Molecules are combinations of bonded atoms, so they definitely have a structure.  You can look in google for a picture of a water molecule, famous for its "Mickey Mouse" structure.\n\nAnd yes, molecules have potential or kinetic energy.