Timeline for Changing from potential to kinetic energy
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| S Feb 19, 2016 at 14:05 | history | suggested | AneesAhmed777 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 17, 2014 at 4:52 | comment | added | levitopher | I agree with "work", but I think a more accurate description would be something like "Work done on the system changes the potential energy, and if this system is conservative, the energy must be transferred to kinetic energy." Correctly defining the "system" would include the possibility of including thermal energy (or others) as well - but that's rather the same thing as saying conservative for a given system. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 0:54 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Of course no physicist would use the OP's words to define work, but they would say that "work is the movement of energy from one place or form to another place or form by mechanical means" which is fairly applicable to the OP's question. And, I suspect, pretty unsatisfying. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 0:27 | comment | added | Phil Frost | @Winther maybe thermal energy is just kinetic energy on a microscopic scale. Feynman seems to think so, anyway. (And who can argue with something Feynman said?) | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 0:25 | comment | added | Winther | ...and also for changing potential energy to thermal energy | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 0:24 | comment | added | NeutronStar | Yep, but with a negative sign instead of a positive sign. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 0:24 | comment | added | Winther | Sure, but changing kinetic to potential energy is also work... | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 0:22 | history | answered | NeutronStar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |