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a small 23 kilograms canoe is floating downriver at a speed of 2 ms what is the canoes kinetic energy
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a small 23 kilograms canoe is floating downriver at a speed of 2 ms what is the canoes kinetic energy

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It all depends where you are when you measure it. If you're in the canoe or another floating boat, the canoe's kinetic energy is zero. If you're a person standing on the riverbank watching the canoe float by, it's 46 joules.
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Look at your given values, you have mass and velocity so the equation Ek=1/2(m)(v)^2 should be what you use.
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