Kinetic
"Kinetic" in a Sentence (9 examples)
Temperature is mean kinetic energy, not energy over volume; compression heats a gas by doing work on it; and a gas that expands without doing work does not cool.
As an atom approaches the barycenter of a forming star, it trades potential for kinetic energy: the stuff of heat.
Good conductors of heat are usually good conductors of electricity, but that puts the causal relation backwards. Conduction-band electrons can't help but transport kinetic energy, which--randomized--is heat. Putting heat before electricity is reasonable only because of the rarity of materials like diamond that conduct heat via the quasi-particles called phonons, which are communicable crystal-lattice vibrations.
Scott Weaver's "Rolling through the Bay" is a kinetic sculpture made from more than 100,000 toothpicks, over a period of 35 years.
On Earth, the forces of gravity and friction dissipate the kinetic energy of a moving body, causing it to stop.
That kinetic typography video you made was awesome, Jim!
One is pulling a carriage; the horse enables the carriage to move - that is giving the kinetic energy to the carriage.
Sorry it took so long; it's been kind of kinetic around here.
Their enthusiasm and group cohesion helped when things got kinetic.
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