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  2. Kinetic energy - Wikipedia

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    The moving ball can then hit something and push it, doing work on what it hits. The kinetic energy of a moving object is equal to the work required to bring it from rest to that speed, or the work the object can do while being brought to rest: net force × displacement = kinetic energy, i.e., =

  3. Kinetic theory of gases - Wikipedia

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    In 1738 Daniel Bernoulli published Hydrodynamica, which laid the basis for the kinetic theory of gases. In this work, Bernoulli posited the argument, that gases consist of great numbers of molecules moving in all directions, that their impact on a surface causes the pressure of the gas, and that their average kinetic energy determines the ...

  4. Classical mechanics - Wikipedia

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    For extended objects composed of many particles, the kinetic energy of the composite body is the sum of the kinetic energies of the particles. The workenergy theorem states that for a particle of constant mass m, the total work W done on the particle as it moves from position r 1 to r 2 is equal to the change in kinetic energy E k of the ...

  5. Bernoulli's principle - Wikipedia

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    The energy entering through A 1 is the sum of the kinetic energy entering, the energy entering in the form of potential gravitational energy of the fluid, the fluid thermodynamic internal energy per unit of mass (ε 1) entering, and the energy entering in the form of mechanical p dV work: = (+ + +) where Ψ = gz is a force potential due to the ...

  6. König's theorem (kinetics) - Wikipedia

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    The second part expresses the kinetic energy of a system of particles in terms of the velocities of the individual particles and the centre of mass.. Specifically, it states that the kinetic energy of a system of particles is the sum of the kinetic energy associated to the movement of the center of mass and the kinetic energy associated to the movement of the particles relative to the center ...

  7. Generalized coordinates - Wikipedia

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    which illustrates the kinetic energy is in general a function of the generalized velocities, coordinates, and time if the constraints also vary with time, so T = T(q, dq/dt, t). In the case the constraints on the particles are time-independent, then all partial derivatives with respect to time are zero, and the kinetic energy is a homogeneous ...

  8. Work (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Energy shares the same unit of measurement with work (Joules) because the energy from the object doing work is transferred to the other objects it interacts with when work is being done. [18] The workenergy principle states that an increase in the kinetic energy of a rigid body is caused by an equal amount of positive work done on the body ...

  9. Kelvin's minimum energy theorem - Wikipedia

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    In fluid mechanics, Kelvin's minimum energy theorem (named after William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin who published it in 1849 [1]) states that the steady irrotational motion of an incompressible fluid occupying a simply connected region has less kinetic energy than any other motion with the same normal component of velocity at the boundary (and, if the domain extends to infinity, with zero value ...