Describe the relationships between kinetic energy, mass, and speed

Practice Questions

Middle School Physical Science › Describe the relationships between kinetic energy, mass, and speed

Questions
10
1

The equation for Kinetic Energy is: KE = 1/2 mv2. What effect would decreasing the mass have on the velocity assuming that the kinetic energy stays the same?

2

Suppose you have a grocery cart. You are pushing it down the aisle and you continue to push with the same speed as you put more items in the cart. As you add more groceries to the cart, how will the Kinetic energy of the cart change?

3

You serve a volleyball with a mass of 2.1 kg. The ball leaves your hand with a speed of 30 m/s. What is the kinetic energy of the ball?

4

The equation for Kinetic Energy is: KE = 1/2 mv2 . Based on this equation, what would have the greatest impact on the overall kinetic energy of a moving object?

5

If an object has 250 Joules of Kinetic energy and is traveling at a velocity of 5 meters per second, what is the objects mass?

6

What is the kinetic energy of a 4 kilogram book, falling at 5 meters per second?

7

A monster truck is traveling at 100 meters per second and runs straight into a bike (with no one on it) The bike is traveling towards the truck at 5 meters per second. As expected, the bike goes flying because it has less kinetic energy than the monster truck. How fast would the bike have to be going to make the monster truck go flying instead?

8

True or false: If an object has more speed than something else, it definitely has more kinetic energy.

9

If a duck is flying at 3 meters per second, and has a mass of 2kg. What is the kinetic energy of the duck?

10

If two cars of the same mass get in a head on collision, which car will likely damage the other more? (ignore vehicle design and assume transferring more kinetic energy results in more damage)

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