Question

Just after the rockets engine is lit, a surge of kinetic energy is transferred to it that sends it skyward. Where was thr kinetic energy transferred to the rocket form

Electromagnetic potential energy

Spring mechanism in the launch platform

Gravitational potential energy

Chemical potential energy of the rocket fuel

Answer 1

The kinetic energy that sends the rocket skyward is transferred to it primarily from the **chemical potential energy of the rocket fuel**.

When the rocket's engines ignite, the chemical energy stored in the fuel is converted into thermal energy and then into kinetic energy as the exhaust gases expand and are expelled out of the rocket nozzles, propelling the rocket upward.