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energy of a moving physical body

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Kinetic energy is the energy that a moving object possesses because of its motion. It matters because this energy can be transferred or converted into other forms, making it important for understanding how things move and interact in the physical world.

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Encyclopedic overview

Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749) was the first to publish the relation for kinetic energy

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kinetic energy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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