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If somebody throw a curve ball would that be kinetic energy or potential energy

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A baseball sitting on the floor has thermal (heat) energy.

If you lift it up and put it on a shelf, it has gravitational potential energy.

If you throw it, it has kinetic energy as long as it's moving.

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