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

Question

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

weight
weight

gravitational attraction
gravitational attraction

mass
mass

kinetic energy

Answer 1

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 speed increases, the kinetic energy increases exponentially due to the square of the velocity in the formula.