Question

An 8 kg toddler is running at a speed of 10 m/s. how much energy does he have?

Answer 1

To find the Kinetic energy this is the equation


KE=1/2mv^2

so we know the mass (m) which is 8kg

we also know the velocity (v) which is 10 m/s

so we plug that into the equation and it should look like this - 1/2(8kg)(10m/s)^2 now we solve

so 1/2 x 8 = 4 so then we just do (4)(10)^2 which gets us 400.

Since kinetic=Joules

The answer is 400 J