How does potential energy increase with increase in height. What is the logic.

Elisabeth Warren

Elisabeth Warren

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2022-12-14

How does potential energy increase with increase in height. What is the logic.

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tetamanci4t7

tetamanci4t7

Beginner2022-12-15Added 8 answers

Potential energy is the measure of the amount of kinetic energy that an object could acquire during a free fall from its current position.
Therefore, greater height will give the object more time to fall and, as a result of gravity, more speed. And greater kinetic energy is implied by greater speed.
Therefore, if the object is put higher, it has a greater potential to produce kinetic energy. Under ideal circumstances, the total energy of the object—its potential energy plus its kinetic energy—remains constant while the object is falling since the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy occurs gradually with gravity and acceleration. This non-mathematical explanation, I hope, is helpful.
Once more, "potential energy" refers to an object's capacity to acquire kinetic energy and denotes the highest amount of energy it is capable of acquiring in kinetic form during a free fall.

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