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How do you find the speed of an object given kinetic energy and mass?

If a car with a mass of 1500 kilograms has 12000 Joules of kinetic energy then how fast is that car moving?

Summary

  1. vcar with an arrow- the car's velocity vector
  2. mcar- car's mass
  3. KEcar- car's kinetic energy
  4. vcar- car's speed
  5. kg- kilograms
  6. J- Joules
  7. m/s- meters per second

Notes

    1. mcar- car's mass, kg- kilograms
    2. KEcar- car's kinetic energy, J- Joules
    1. vcar- car's speed
    2. remember that v without an arrow means the length of the velocity vector, which is speed
    1. KE- kinetic energy
    1. KE- kinetic energy
    2. m- mass
    3. v- speed
    1. v- speed
    2. KE- kinetic energy
    3. m- mass
    1. vcar- car's speed
    2. KEcar- car's kinetic energy
    3. mcar- car's mass
    1. vcar- car's speed
    2. J- Joules
    3. kg- kilograms
    4. m- meters
    5. s- seconds
    1. vcar- car's speed
    2. m/s- meters per second