Because potential energy is directly proportional to all the factors that yield it's value.
Potential Energy = mass * gravitational acceleration * height
So, with everything else being constant increasing the height will increase the potential energy.
The ball in the higher position will have more potential energy.
The ball held over your head has more height, so it has more potential energy.
It takes energy to push the ball up; and in principle, energy can be recovered when it is brought down. Therefore it has potential energy.
Because it can fall down
Gravitational potential energy is a type of energy that an object possesses because of where it is placed in a gravitational field. The higher the object the more energy it has, so if you had an object that was on the ground and then you put it on a high shelf then it would have more energy when it is on the shelf.
potential
Put it on a higher shelf. Or a lower one.
Picking up the box gives it kinetic energy. When the box is sitting on the shelf, it has potential energy.
Potential energy is energy of an object due to its location or the effect of forces which are "locked" in place. One example is a book on a shelf: it has gravitational potential energy which is realised when it falls. Another is a stretched spring whose potential energy is realised when the spring is allowed to return to its normal length.
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Gravitational potential energy
a book sitting up on a shelf. gravity can potentionally pull it down if pushed.
Gravitational potential energy is a type of energy that an object possesses because of where it is placed in a gravitational field. The higher the object the more energy it has, so if you had an object that was on the ground and then you put it on a high shelf then it would have more energy when it is on the shelf.
potential
Increased
Place it on a higher shelf. If it has to stay on the same shelf, then its potential energy can only be increased by adding some pages to it.
Put it on a higher shelf. Or a lower one.
potential energy
Gravitational Potential Energy, also known as GPE.
Picking up the box gives it kinetic energy. When the box is sitting on the shelf, it has potential energy.
A book, no matter where it sits, is an organized and bound assembly of paper with information stored on it. The book has some mass, and like any mass, its gravitational potential energy relative to the floor can be defined in terms of its mass and its distance above the floor.