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A small 22 kilogram canoe is floating downriver at a speed of 5 m/s. What's the canoes kinetic energy? _______ Joules

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275 joules is your answer

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The non-relativistic formula for kinetic energy for low speeds is :

K.E = 0.5mv^2 = 0.5 * 22 * (5)^2 = 275 J
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