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When a pitcher throws a softball to a catcher, the vibration of the atoms that make up the softball is ____________ energy, while the motion of the ball toward the catcher is ___________ energy.?

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The vibration is thermal energy ("heat" energy which every object possesses).
The second one is kinetic energy ("motion" energy of a massive object)
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