Question

What is absolute potential energy?

Answer 1

1. The amount of labour required to move an object from an infinitely distant point to its current location is known as absolute potential energy.
2. The formula used for finding the absolute potential energy is: $W=-\frac{GMm}{r}$
   Where $r$ represents the distance between the centers of two objects, $W$ represents the work done, $G$ represents the gravitational constant, $m$ and $M$ represents the masses.
3. Absolute potential energy can also be used as the energy required for an object to reach escape velocity.
4. The energy possessed by an item as a result of its location in relation to other objects, internal tensions, electric charge, or other variables that change depending on the object for which the potential energy is determined.
5. These conservative forces may be represented by vectors written as gradients of a certain scalar function called potential at any location in space.