How is Kinetic Energy Different from Potential Energy?
Kinetic energy is the energy of motion, like a car zooming down the highway. Potential energy is stored energy, like a catapult ready to launch.
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Think of kinetic energy as the energy you have when you鈥檙e running, and potential energy as the energy you have sitting at the top of a slide waiting to go down.
As someone who dropped a physics textbook off a shelf, I can tell you: before it falls, it鈥檚 potential energy; mid-fall, it鈥檚 kinetic.
Kinetic energy is all about things that are moving. Potential energy is all about things that could move but haven't yet.
Kinetic energy = moving. Potential energy = waiting to move. Simple as that!
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