Question

What is the KINETIC ENERGY of a body travelling through a Zig-Zag path?(since velocity of a body is the distance travelled by a body per unit time in a specific direction.)

Answer 1

Hi, kinetic energy is a scalar quantity that means it does not depend on the path, it depends on only initial and final points. so it does not matter whether an object travels a zig- zig path or a linear path in Physics.
you can use the same formula of kinetic energy = (1/2) * m * (v^2).
and there v = speed of an object (not the velocity).
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