Kinetic energy is never negative, but potential energy can be.
Potential energy depends on height above some reference level,
and you can pick any level you want as the reference. So, if the
object is below the reference level you pick, then its potential
energy relative to your reference level is negative.
What that means is: You have to lift it / do work on it / give it more
energy than it has now ... in order to move it to the reference level.
(That's exactly the situation with electrons bound to an atom. Their
energy is considered negative, because we have to do work and
give them more energy to rip them away from the atom.)
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Regarding the other choices:
-- Kinetic energy is scalar ... Yes. So is potential energy.
-- Kinetic energy increases with height ...
No. It doesn't, but potential energy does.
-- Kinetic energy depends on position ...
No. It doesn't, but potential energy does.
If a substance absorbs energy but its temperature does not change, then the internal potential energy is changing.
Answer:
2,38kg
Explanation:
Mass in function of time can be found by the formula:
, where
is the initial mass, t is the time and k is a constant.
Given that a sample decay 1% per day, that means that after first day you have 99% of mass.
, but
, so we have
, then 
Now using k found we must to find
.

Answer:
Friction between the box and the floor is 25N to the left
Explanation:
There are two forces acting on the box along the horizontal direction:
- The force of push applied by the worker, in the forward direction, F
- The force of friction,
, acting in the opposite direction (backward)
So the net force acting on the box is

According to Newton's second law of motion, the net force on an object is equal to the product between its mass (m) and its acceleration (a), so we can write:

And so

However, in this case the box is moving at constant speed; this means that its acceleration is zero:

Therefore we have:

Which means

And since we are told that

This means that the force of friction is also 25 N:
