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 November 10th, 2016, 01:46 PM #1 Newbie   Joined: Aug 2015 From: Alberta Posts: 18 Thanks: 0 Kinetic Energy I'm having trouble with calculating Kinetic Energy. River water with a mass of 100 tonnes is moving at 12.5km/h. What is its kinetic energy? E = 1/2mkw I got 100000 x 3.47 X .5 = 1735000 j But the real answer is suppose to be 602.7 kj. I don't get it.
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 Originally Posted by jayinwww I'm having trouble with calculating Kinetic Energy. River water with a mass of 100 tonnes is moving at 12.5km/h. What is its kinetic energy? E = 1/2mkw I got 100000 x 3.47 X .5 = 1735000 j But the real answer is suppose to be 602.7 kj. I don't get it.
$E = \dfrac 1 2 m v^2~kg\cdot m/s^2$

$12.5 km/hr = 3.472 m/s$

$100 tonne = 100000 kg$

$E = \dfrac 1 2 (100000)(3.472)^2 = 602816.36 J = 602.8 kJ$

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 Originally Posted by jayinwww I'm having trouble with calculating Kinetic Energy. River water with a mass of 100 tonnes is moving at 12.5km/h. What is its kinetic energy? E = 1/2mkw
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 I got 100000 x 3.47 X .5 = 1735000 j But the real answer is suppose to be 602.7 kj. I don't get it.

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