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As a puck falls its potential energy decreases why

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The potential energy is converted into kinetic energy
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because its getting converted into another form of energy, as the puck is falling its increasing its velocity at a rate which decreases its potential energy and increases its frictional energy which then converts to kinetic energy as it hits an object or the floor.

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