If a train and a car are traveling at the same speed, they have the same amount of kinetic energy.

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Timber

12 February, 06:42

If a train and a car are traveling at the same speed, they have the same amount of kinetic energy.

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Cody Valencia · Answer 1

Not necessarily. Kinetic energy does depend on speed,

but it also depends on mass.

If the car has more mass than the train has, and they're

traveling at the same speed, then the car has more

kinetic energy than the train.

Or the other way around. It depends on both the speed

and the mass.