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How is it possible for the same object to have different amounts of gravitational potential energy?
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How is it possible for the same object to have different amounts of gravitational potential energy?

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In Newtonian mechanics, the gravitational energy possessed by a mass, because of the gravitational field produced by a second mass.

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