The monkey did it! asked: ok, I was given a Chem problem and told to find the kinetic energy of a 45g golf ball moving at 61m/s and I calculated that it had 84J (or 20cal) of kinetic energy. I was then asked what happened to this energy when the ball lands in the sand and the answer I was given was that the energy would be transfered from the ball to the sand thus causing the sand where the ball [...]