A coffee mug has a mass of 350 g if the cat had also knocked at 2000 g brick on the windowsill how would the kinetic energy of the brick compared to the clinic energy of the coffee mug as they both got close to the ground?
To compare the kinetic energy of the brick and the coffee mug as they both get close to the ground, we need to consider their masses.
The kinetic energy (KE) of an object can be calculated using the formula:
KE = 0.5 * mass * velocity^2
However, since we are comparing the objects just as they get close to the ground, we can assume that their velocities are the same. Therefore, we can ignore the velocity term while comparing the kinetic energy.
The mass of the coffee mug is given as 350 g, which is 0.35 kg. The mass of the brick is given as 2000 g, which is 2 kg.
Now, if we compare the kinetic energies of the coffee mug and the brick, we can directly compare their masses.
Since the brick has a mass of 2 kg and the coffee mug has a mass of 0.35 kg, we can conclude that the kinetic energy of the brick will be significantly higher than that of the coffee mug.