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.
With 400 rubber bands and a large watermelon you can demonstrate the difference between potential and kinetic energy by exploding a watermelon with rubber bands. You probably want some goggles to protect your eyes. Place a bunch of rubber bands around the middle of the watermelon. Be careful though as all that pressure from the outsite will start to explode the watermelon. Rubber bands are a great example of potential energy. Potential energy is energy that is stored up, not being used, just waiting to be unleashed.