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Which has greater gravitational potential energy a car sittknv on top of a hill or a bowling ball sitting kn top of the same hill?
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Why does A stretched elastic or stretched string each have potential energy?
Think of a bowling ball sitting on a shelf. The ball itself is no different from a bowling ball sitting on the floor, but one of them contains enough potential energy to break the bones in your foot if you drop it. The energy that is converted when you stretch the elastic or string from its relaxed state is called potential energy by analogy, even though there's really no potential field equivalent to gravity.
How can you increase gravitational potential energy?
Potential gravitational energy is pretty theoretic, but exists as potential. So a ball sitting on the floor has little to no potential energy as it is as low as possible, but put that ball on a table, its potential energy increases. So the answer is to place things higher, on a surface of a sort. Mass and height
Dose a car sitting in a driveway has stored gravitational potential energy?
On a flat level surface, a little but. On an inclined surface, plenty...or if the car is jacked up it ha a LOT of potential gravational energy.
How do you solve What is the potential energy of a rock that weighs 100 newtons that is sitting on top of a hill 300 meters high?
Just use the formula for gravitational potential energy:GPE = mgh Earth's gravity is around 9.8 newton/kilogram (it varies a bit, depending where you are located). The answer will be in joules.
What is the potential energy of a 0.5kg bowl of soup sitting on a tray 2 meters above the ground?
Referenced to the floor, 0.5 kg of mass 2 meters above it has(M) (g) (h) = (0.5) (9.8) (2) = 9.8 joulesof gravitational potential energy
Does a book sitting on a shelf have gravitational potential energy?
YES!
Give an example of gravitational potential energy?
a book sitting up on a shelf. gravity can potentionally pull it down if pushed.
Why does A stretched elastic or stretched string each have potential energy?
Think of a bowling ball sitting on a shelf. The ball itself is no different from a bowling ball sitting on the floor, but one of them contains enough potential energy to break the bones in your foot if you drop it. The energy that is converted when you stretch the elastic or string from its relaxed state is called potential energy by analogy, even though there's really no potential field equivalent to gravity.
How can you increase gravitational potential energy?
Potential gravitational energy is pretty theoretic, but exists as potential. So a ball sitting on the floor has little to no potential energy as it is as low as possible, but put that ball on a table, its potential energy increases. So the answer is to place things higher, on a surface of a sort. Mass and height
Elastic potential energyis the energy of an object above the surface of earth?
No, that's gravitational potential energy, such as a book sitting on a table. Elastic potential energy is the required energy to stretch or compress a solid or liquid.
A squirrel running up a tree and sitting on a branch shows what kind of energy conversation?
Kinetic energy converting to gravitational potential energy
What energy does a boulder have sitting on top of a mountain?
A rock on the top of a hill has potential energy. When it falls it has kinetic energy. You are probably in 6th grade to be learning this. :) Hope this helped you!
A squirrel running up a tree and sitting on a branch shows what kind of energy conversation (apex)?
Kinetic energy becoming potential energy.
A box of DVDs is sitting in a cabinet 2.3 m off the ground The box has a mass of 10 kg What is its gravitational potential energy?
225 J
Dose a car sitting in a driveway has stored gravitational potential energy?
On a flat level surface, a little but. On an inclined surface, plenty...or if the car is jacked up it ha a LOT of potential gravational energy.
Does a bowling ball sitting on a shelf have more potential energy than a baseball ball on the same shelf?
My bet is on the bowling ball. At 20000 ft the pull of gravity is only marginally smaller than that of the baseball bat at 2 ft above sea leval. Because both have been lifted to their respective hights giving them potential energy, I would keep out of the way of the ball.
Any two objects on the same shelf of a cupboard have the same potential energy?
No. The bowling ball has a lot more gravitational potential energy than the salt shaker sitting next to it. You knew that, because it took a lot more muscle energy/force/work to put the bowling ball up there than to put the salt shaker up there. That's where the potential energy came from. Also, when both of them fall from the shelf, even though they'll both hit the floor at the same time, the bowling ball will hit with a lot more kinetic energy, as evidenced by its ability to chip more tiles upon impact than the salt shaker will. The potential energy depends not only on the height to which the object is lifted, but also on the object's mass.
