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Give one example when it might be important to know how much gravitational potential energy is stored by an object. Why is it important?

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A possible situation in knowing the gravitational potential energy of an object is to find it's maximum kinetic energy. It can be important if I would want to calculate the velocity the object will be having if the potential gravitational energy will be converted into kinetic by using the formula.

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