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One person says that potential energy of a particular book kept in an almirah is $20 J$ and other says it is $30 J$ . Is one of them necessarily wrong? Give reasons.

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No. One is free to choose the zero potential energy configuration as the origin is chosen arbitrarily. Hence the potential energy depends on this chosen configuration.

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