The Impact of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on American Business from 1977-2010 Ajani Harris Claremont McKenna College This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in this collection by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contactscholarship@cuc.claremont.edu.
In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its stated velocity.
Therefore, kinetic energy is directly proportional to both the mass of the object and the square of its speed. This is important because small changes in speed will result in larger changes in kinetic energy. For example, if a car moves twice as fast as another, it will contain four times as much kinetic energy.