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.
1 Kinetic energy is energy in motion while potential energy is energy at rest. 2  The term âkinetic energyâ was coined by William Thomson while âpotential energyâ was coined by William Rankine.  Examples of kinetic energy are: a teacher writing on the blackboard, picking up a pencil, playing basketball.