Question

Determine whether kinetic energy is being converted to potential energy, or vice versa, in the following processes.

A) Water cascades downward in a waterfall.
B) A player kicks a football.
C) An electric current is generated by a chemical reaction in a battery.
D) Water boils when heated on a gas stove.

Answer 1

All the processes given involves the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy

Step-by-step explanation:

The kinetic energy is the energy possessed by an object because of its motion, equal to one half the body's mass times the square of its speed.

i.e
`K.E = (1)/(2)mv^2`

On the other hand, The potential energy is the energy possessed by an object because of its position in a gravitational or electric field, or its condition as a stretched or compressed spring, as a chemical reactant,or by having rest mass.

SO, from both definitions :

Water cascades downward in a waterfall → involves the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy

A player kicks a football → involves the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy

An electric current is generated by a chemical reaction in a battery. → involves the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy

Water boils when heated on a gas stove. → involves the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy