minutephysics | The Physics of Car Crashes @MinutePhysics | Uploaded 8 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
How is the chemical energy of gasoline transformed into kinetic energy of a moving car? And where does that kinetic energy go when the car crashes into something and stops moving?

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