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a boulder and a pebble are sitting on a cliff which has greater grvitational potential energy and why? a cheetah and a person are racing both has the same mass whifh has greater kinetic energy and why.​

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since both boulder and pebble are at the same height from ground, the one with the greater mass would have more GPE. Cheetah has greater KE. as KE = 0.5mv^2 so since both person and cheetah have the same mass, cheetah would obviously have greater speed, v thus greater KE
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