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If a baseball is thrown straight up into the air, when does it have its greatest amount of gravitational potential energy?

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It is when it is falling down it has its greatest amount of gravitational potential energy

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This is because the gravitation of the earth pulls things closer to the earth

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it has the highest potential energy when it is at the peak of it's height. why? cause PE = mgh where 'h' is the height. so PE will be maximum at max height!!

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