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Offline mslee

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translational energy
« on: July 14, 2007, 10:01:32 PM »
Is translational energy the same thing as kinetic energy?

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Re: translational energy
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2007, 05:13:27 AM »
Translational energy is a type of kinetic energy.  You can also have rotational kinetic energy.

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