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What is the kinetic energy when an object reaches escape velocity?
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[QUOTE="Drakkith, post: 6321153, member: 272035"] Escape velocity is simply the velocity required for an object to escape the gravitational pull of a body, ignoring complications like air resistance and other gravitational-influencing bodies (Sun, Moon, other planets, etc). There is no 'during'. Escape velocity is not an event. Nothing is happening to gravity in the context of escape velocity. The object is simply traveling so fast that the gravitational acceleration of the larger body cannot decelerate the object at a fast enough rate to ever pull the object back to the surface. [/QUOTE]
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