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    High School Physics 101 refresher question -- Confused about the definition of a Joule

    I think you might have momentum mixed up with energy. >1Kg traveling at 1m/s would have a KE of 1Joule It looks like you're taking mass*velocity and concluding this is the energy. Actually, this is the momentum (mass x velocity), which has units of kg*m/s. (not 1 kg*m^2/s^2= 1 J energy) To...