When the yo-yo is first released, the throw gives it translational kinetic energy.

Free recoil is the given name for the translational kinetic energy transmitted from a small arm to a shooter.

E is the translational kinetic energy of the small arm as expressed by the joule (J).

The translational kinetic energy of an object is:

Heating results in an increase in temperature due to an increase in the average translational kinetic energy of the molecules.

With the velocity known for the small arm, the free recoil of the small arm can be calculated using the translational kinetic energy equation.

This is because despite the larger internal energy in many molecules (compared to that for an atom), 3RT/2 is still the mean translational kinetic energy.

From Newton's second law, the energy of a moving body due to its motion can be stated mathematically from the translational kinetic energy as:

For monatomic helium and other noble gases, the internal energy consists only of the translational kinetic energy of the individual atoms.

The pinewood derby car converts gravitational potential energy into translational kinetic energy (speed) plus rotational energy.

This can be in translational kinetic energy, rotational kinetic energy, or other forms such as potential energy in vibrational modes.

In other words, the original translational kinetic energy of the particles is transferred to internal energy modes, chiefly vibrational or rotational, of the particles.

The kinetic theory assumes that pressure is caused by the force associated with individual atoms striking the walls, and that all energy is translational kinetic energy.

Since the particle is stationary, there is no translational kinetic energy of the dipole, so the Hamiltonian of the dipole is just the potential energy:

Since there are three translational degrees of freedom (e.g., motion along the x, y, and z axes), the translational kinetic energy is related to the kinetic temperature by:

The temperature derived from this translational kinetic energy is sometimes referred to as kinetic temperature and is equal to the thermodynamic temperature over a very wide range of temperatures.

For this reaction in which the atom A (here H) is lighter than B and C, the reaction energy is released primarily as translational kinetic energy of the products.

For example, it predicts that every atom of a noble gas, in thermal equilibrium at temperature T, has an average translational kinetic energy of (3/2)k'T, where k is the Boltzmann constant.

It sometimes is convenient to split the total kinetic energy of a body into the sum of the body's center-of-mass translational kinetic energy and the energy of rotation around the center of mass (rotational energy):

Finally, because the thermal helium atom has no rotational and vibrational degrees of freedom and no available electronic transitions, only the translational kinetic energy of the incident and scattered beam need be analyzed in order to extract information about the surface.

The average translational kinetic energy possessed by free particles in a system of free particles in thermodynamic equilibrium (as measured in the frame of reference of the center of mass of that system) may also be referred to as the thermal energy per particle.

The measured threshold of 11.5 eV is about 1 eV above the minimum energy required for partial fragmentation of SO2 into SO (A3Π) and a ground-state oxygen atom, indicating that very little translational kinetic energy is carried away by the dissociation fragments in the near-threshold region.