Question

Lamark goes to a bowling alley to test his belief that rolling a bowling ball slowly will result in knocking down more pins. He gently rolls his bowling ball towards the bowling pins lined up at the end of the lane. The bowling ball stops in the middle of the lane without striking the pins. Which statement below best explains what happened?

Answer 1

Answer: Ball's kinetic energy became potential energy

Explanation:

There are no options attached but this should be along the lines of what happened.

Kinetic energy refers to energy that an object has as a result of it moving whilst potential energy is the opposite and is energy that an object stores within itself due to several factors whilst it is not in motion.

The ball was initially in motion which means that it had kinetic energy but as the ball was slowing down, this energy was gradually converted to potential energy until the balls came to a standstill.