kinetic energy
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That is, kinetic energy destroys the incoming warhead.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
He brought both a rough male texture to his direction and a kinetic energy that matched the violence of life in medieval Japan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
"This model allows us to program the shape we want to create, how stable it is, and how powerful it can be when stored potential energy is allowed to snap into kinetic energy," says Hong.
From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2025
His novels move with kinetic energy, his plots are intricate puzzles shrouded in religious iconography, ancient cryptography and other obscure arcana.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
It keeps spinning faster—all that kinetic energy forced down the neck of the funnel until it’s blaring like an alarm—then it falls silent as it drops into the black abyss of the funnel.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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