Verify that the SI unit of kinetic and potential energy is the joule.

What will be an ideal response?


Kinetic energy is given by Its fundamental units are therefore the fundamental unit of mass (kg) times those of velocity (length/time, m/s):



Gravitational potential energy has units of mass·length·acceleration. Its fundamental units are

therefore:

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