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What does kinetic energy mean?

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  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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In this particular system, the absolute temperature of an ideal gas is directly proportional to the average kinetic energy of the molecules.
The energy flow resulting from transforming kinetic energy into potential energy is heat.
The molecules convert their kinetic energy into potential energy when they rise into the air just like the ball did.
As the beam bit into the front of the missile launcher, the protons shed their immense kinetic energy in the form of infrared radiation.
When you picked up the clip with the magnet the clip was accelerated toward the magnet acquiring kinetic energy.
A moving particle will carry with it the energy of its motion, which the physicists call kinetic energy.

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