Timeline for Kinetic energy on macro and micro situation
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| Feb 17, 2015 at 23:28 | comment | added | Sofia | @Steeven the question is about an object submitted to the gravitational field. No additional forces are mentioned here. Then, no, the gravitational acceleration doesn't vary from atom to atom and **inside the object", as the user asks, the structure won't be changed. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 23:23 | comment | added | Steeven | The atom might gain enough energy to be able to break a bond. But as @Sofia says, even with all this energy, since they don't try to break free, then they don't. They don't try to start and movements relative to each other. If some external force helps them to redirect their energy, as when then object smashes into a rock after the long fall, then all the energy goes into smashing the object to pieces. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 23:00 | comment | added | Sofia | No, in general the relative motion of the atoms with respect to one another won't change. | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 22:48 | comment | added | user40003 | So wouldn't the atoms get so much energy that they break the bond between each other? | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 22:21 | history | answered | Steeven | CC BY-SA 3.0 |