{"id":8300,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/kinetic_energy\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:13","slug":"kinetic_energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/kinetic_energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinetic energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The energy, measured in joules, a body possess by virtue of its motion and which is equal to work a body would do if brought to rest. &nbsp;A body of mass m (kilograms) with speed v (meters per sec.) has translational (or classical) kinetic energy <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: normal;\">T=1\/2mv2<\/span>. &nbsp;In contrast, a rotating body with a moment of inertia I about its axis of rotation and an angular velocity<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: normal;\"> w<\/span> has rotational kinetic energy <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: normal;\">T = 1\/2Iw2<\/span>. &nbsp;Kinetic energy is distinguished from potential energy (i.e., energy stored in a body such as a coiled spring due to its position, shape or state). &nbsp;The sum of potential and kinetic energy gives the internal (or thermodynamic) energy of a body.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"energy\">Energy<\/a>, <a href=\"joule\">Joule<\/a>, Moment of inertia, Thermodynamics  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The energy, measured in joules, a body possess by virtue of its motion and which is equal to work a body would do if brought to rest. &nbsp;A body of mass m (kilograms) with speed v (meters per sec.) has translational (or classical) kinetic energy T=1\/2mv2. &nbsp;In contrast, a rotating body with a moment of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/kinetic_energy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kinetic energy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}