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What is the difference between kinetic energy and potential energy? Can energy change

from potential to kinetic? Can energy change from kinetic to potential?

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energy the body has when it is moving

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As soon as the objects begins to move the POTENTIAL ENERGY transforms in to Kinetic enegy

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Answer:

The main difference between potential and kinetic energy is that one is the energy of what can be and one is the energy of what is. In other words, potential energy is stationary, with stored energy to be released; kinetic energy is energy in motion, actively using energy for movement.

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