Energy
A baseball player is full of energy when he
walks up to the batters
box.
Kinetic Energy is the energy pertaining to
motion.
But what kind of energy does he have?
The answer is potential energy and kinetic
energy
As you can see, the player to the left has already
taken his step
The picture below shows a
player batting full of potential energy.
back and is waiting to turn his potential energy
into kinetic energy
Potential
Energy Energy of position.
The
picture below shows the batter at his full Kinetic
energy
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~rwr25/Images/The%20Step%202.jpg
http://www.newyorkmetsreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/david-wright-double1.jpg
Potential Energy (U) =
mass(M)*gravity(g)*height(h)
Kinetic Engery (K) = 1/2 Mass(M)*Velocity(V)^2
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