Question

A. What is the Potential energy (PE) of a 2 kg (mass) hammer which is 0.4 meter up? (use g = 9.8) Show your work.

b. What is the PE of an object with a mass of 10 kg, and 2 meters up?

c. Finish this sentence to describe what happens to potential energy: As the height of an object increases…

d. Which has more potential energy, a bowling ball on the floor or a grape on the floor? Explain.

Answer 1

Answer: a. 7.84 J

b. 196 J

c. The amount of potential energy increases.

d. None of them. Since both objects are in the floor assuming that the height is zero.

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