How do you calculate the force or energy created from an object with a mass of 1 kg moving horizontally with
20m/s? Also give the base formula with a little explaination. Thank you!
Well, it's carrying a few different kinds of energy.
-- It's carrying thermal (heat) energy because its temperature is warmer than Absolute Zero.
-- It may be carrying chemical energy, which will come out of it when you burn it.
-- It has kinetic energy because it's moving. I think this is the one you're thinking of, because you told us its mass and how fast it's moving.
You can never create energy where there isn't any, and you can never destroy energy or cancel it out. Energy just moves around from place to place, or from one object to another one. In order to make the object move at that speed, somebody had to GIVE it that kinetic energy ... like maybe by throwing it. When it loses some kinetic energy somehow, it'll slow down, and when it loses ALL of its kinetic energy, it'll stop.
The kinetic energy of a moving object is
(1/2) · (the object's mass) · (its speed squared) .
So for the object you're describing, its kinetic energy is
