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Is Standing on a diving board a Kinetic energy or potential energy

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Potential Energy. This diver is standing at the end of the diving board, ready to dive. After he/she dives and is falling toward the water, they'll have kinetic energy, or the energy of moving matter. But even as they stand motionless high above the water, he/she has energy

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