Which characteristic will be affected by increasing the speed of an object from 30 meters per second ( ms

) to 40 meters per second( ms
)?(1 point)
Responses

weight
weight

kinetic energy
kinetic energy

mass
mass

gravitational attraction
gravitational attraction

1 answer

The characteristic that will be affected by increasing the speed of an object from 30 meters per second (m/s) to 40 meters per second (m/s) is kinetic energy.

Kinetic energy is calculated using the formula \( KE = \frac{1}{2} mv^2 \), where \( m \) is the mass of the object and \( v \) is its velocity. As the velocity increases, the kinetic energy increases as well.