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The energy produced by mechanical means is called mechanical energy. It has two forms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(i) Kinetic energy <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(ii) Potential energy.<\/p>\n\n\n
The energy possessed by a body by virtue of its motion is called its kinetic energy. A moving object can do work. The amount of work that a moving object can do before coming to rest is equal to its kinetic energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Examples of kinetic energy:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (i) A bullet fired from a gun can pierce a target due to its kinetic energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (ii) The kinetic energy of a fast stream of water is used to run water mills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (iii) A moving hammer drives a nail into the wood. Being in motion, it has kinetic energy or ability to do work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (iv) The kinetic energy of air is used to run windmills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (v) A fast moving stone can break a window pane. The stone has kinetic energy due to its motion and so it can do work.<\/p>\n\n\n Potential energy is the energy stored in a body or a system by virtue of its position in a field of force or by its configuration. Potential energy is also called mutual energy or energy of configuration. It is measured by the amount of work that a body or system can do in passing from its present position or configuration to some standard position or configuration, called zero position or zero configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Examples of potential energy:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (i) A body lying on the roof of a building has some potential energy. When allowed to fall down, it can do work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (ii) The potential energy of water stored to great heights in dams is used to run turbines for generating hydroelectricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The energy produced by mechanical means is called mechanical energy. It has two forms: (i) Kinetic energy (ii) Potential energy. Kinetic energy The energy possessed by a body by virtue of its motion is called its kinetic energy. A moving object can do work. The amount of work that a moving object can do before … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Potential energy:<\/h4>\n\n\n