A 100-kg body moving at 35 kph was found to have a total energy of 570 J. How much potential energy was there in the moving body?
The energy is conserved, which means that the sum of a single body's kinetic and potential energies remains constant. Thus, we calculate the potential energy using the equation for the kinetic energy and the proper conversions (since we have the velocity in kph):
= 490 J
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