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A ball is thrown into the air. At its maximum height, just before it falls back to the ground, all of its kinetic energy has been converted to pontential energy. True False
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A ball is thrown into the air. At its maximum height, just before it falls back to the ground, all of its kinetic energy has been converted to pontential energy.

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If tossed straight up, then this is true.

If not straight up, then even at the peak, it still has some horizontal speed, so its kinetic energy never shrinks to zero.
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TRUE. as it's velocity is 0 it has stopped moving up and hasn't begun moving down
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