The Impact of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on American Business from 1977-2010 Ajani Harris Claremont McKenna College This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in this collection by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contactscholarship@cuc.claremont.edu.
In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its stated velocity.
Kinetic energy is related to temperature and the mass and velocity of the molecules (K.E. = 1/2 mv2). When the temperature reaches the boiling point, the average kinetic energy of the liquid particles is sufficient to overcome the forces of attraction that hold molecules in the liquid state.