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How do you calculate the gravitational potential energy of a 2 kg bottle of soda falling?

User Fitzoh
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If the bottle is falling, then its gravitational potential energy is also falling. That's because gravitational potential energy is (mass)·(gravity)·(HEIGHT) .

So the best I can tell you is that at any instant of time, the bottle's GPE is

(2 kg) · (9.81 m/s²) · (HEIGHT above ground at that instant) .

That's going to be (19.62 x height above ground in meters), and the unit, of course, will be 'Joules'.

User Justin Warner
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Answer:

(2)(0.76)9.8

Step-by-step explanation:

I JUST DID IT ITS C APEX LEARNING

User Hooke
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