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Potential energy is the mass of an object times its height above ground. If you lift a 10 pound object 10 feet it has a potential energy of 100 pound-feet. The energy is released when it returns to the earth. Another form of energy is kinet...
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Potential energy A rock next to a ledge. A wound up spring. A turned off faucet. An unpopped balloon. unexploded dynomite Kinetic Energy Moving freight train A fired bullet. Hammer swinging toward a nail. Karate chop A thrown ball.
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Hey Chandu, isn't that from a serial movie? I seem to remember something like "return of Chandu" with that dracula guy. I would have just said picking up a book from a table and then dropping it. The book acquired gravitational p...
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With the limited knowledge I have, I think that the best answer would probably the food molecule made up of energy-rich macromolecules. For example when you are eating something that is rich in saturated fats, the C-H bonds in those fatty a...
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The force is attractive--it requires work to move the electron away from the proton, thus the potential energy increases as r increases. Evaluate each expression at a few radii and see how the minus sign changes things. (Compare a similar e...
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An apple hanging from a tree
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Potential energy is generally thought of as energy stored within a physical system. There are all types of potential energy: a football on a table has gravitational potential energy - if it is knocked off the table potential energy will ret...
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Potential energy: Energy contained in a system which can later be turned into kinetic energy. An example is the gravitational potential energy stored upon climbing a hill. The tendency you feel to speed up on the way down is due to the conv...
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Grass, coal, wind, sunshine, corn, petroleum, water
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Potential energy is a concept which can be more simply understood as “stored energy.” It is energy stored within a physical system, usually as a result of an object’s position. Potential energy examples include those to do with gravity, ela...
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