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
• When the balloon hits the floor and stops, that kinetic energy has to go somewhere.
  — Exploratorium, Scientific American, 22 May 2014
• 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
• Take your foot off the gas and regen braking will capture the kinetic energy to recharge the battery and slow the car down to a near stop.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• 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 Rock tore a few muscles during the match, which means that the kinetic energy of the first is replaced by staid grappling here.
  — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2024
• 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
• One of the most important of these quantities is the kinetic energy in the fluid.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2018
• 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 theory, the kinetic energy could push the object away from its collision course with Earth.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• Most any Earth-threatening asteroid is going to be coming in really fast, carrying a lot of kinetic energy.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024