How to Use kinetic energy in a Sentence

kinetic energy

noun
  • The kinetic energy depends on both the mass of the object and the speed.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The kinetic energy depends on both the mass and the speed of the faller.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 1 June 2018
  • What is the kinetic energy of the spacecraft at the end of the rocket burn?
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 31 May 2018
  • The movie has won raves, in large part for the kinetic energy Buckley brings to the role.
    Time, 19 June 2019
  • The walls are built to absorb some of the kinetic energy from the crashed car, lessening the force of the crash.
    Tyler Kraft, Indianapolis Star, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The kinetic energy of the crowd kicked up: Hands waved and bodies rocked below the cold rain that poured down once again.
    Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Even the fireworks that opened and closed his set seemed to burst with less kinetic energy than the singer himself.
    Graham Ambrose, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2018
  • The idea is to have the total work done on the human decrease the kinetic energy to zero (so that the human stops).
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 1 June 2018
  • So, the change in kinetic energy part of the power is just a tiny fraction of the total power.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The kinetic energy of the sport now exceeds the capacity of the human body to cope with it.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Jan. 2023
  • When the bottle hits the wall, the bottle shatters spreading the kinetic energy out across a wide area.
    Allison Barrie, Fox News, 31 May 2018
  • The kinetic energy of the 100 pound missile, combined with the six blades, is enough to kill anyone within range of blades.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2019
  • If the axles increase in energy, the train has to decrease in kinetic energy and slow down—even on a flat track.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 21 Oct. 2020
  • That kinetic energy is roughly equal to the impact of a 10-pound weight dropped on you from nearly 11 feet above your head.
    Neil Greenberg, courant.com, 5 June 2019
  • Then there are tens of thousands of pieces of trackable debris the size of a softball or larger that have the kinetic energy of a large bomb.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2022
  • For all the kinetic energy of the staging, the story seems stalled — like Dee with her revenge, on the verge of action but not taking it just yet.
    Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The work-energy principle says that the work (w) done on a point mass is equal to its change in kinetic energy.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2019
  • That kind of kinetic energy is hard to stop, experts fear.
    Sara Sidner and Mallory Simon, CNN, 16 Jan. 2021
  • All of the energy comes from the kinetic energy of moving air.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 13 June 2019
  • Of course, there are downsides to that much kinetic energy.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Yeah, there’s something about that kinetic energy that she’s always had in her dance movements that are so unique to her.
    William Grimes, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • The sound produced by a stretch of ocean wave the length of a football field crashing onto a beach is less than the kinetic energy of a car traveling down the freeway.
    Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Racers are dealing with a lot of kinetic energy and strong forces.
    John Eric Goff, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Back in the day, Be Your Own Pet shows were full of so much kinetic energy and onstage acrobatics, the band often whipped through a whole set in a 30-minute fury.
    Marissa R. Moss, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • In that case, the maximum amount of kinetic energy is recouped and put back into the battery.
    Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
  • But since the air is changing speed, there is a change in kinetic energy (1/2mv2), so that requires energy.
    WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
  • This early burst of kinetic energy continues through the album’s first half, which is tailored to the dance floor.
    Mark Richardson, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Given their velocities of many times the speed of sound, these small objects have the kinetic energy of a falling anvil.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Ocean boosters like to compare the kinetic energy stored in the sea to a ginormous oil reserve that’s never going to run dry.
    Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Makers must balance the heft of all the parts in order to optimize how much kinetic energy each flywheel can store.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2020

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