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relation between gravitational potential and gravitational potential energy ?

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Gravitational potential energy is the amount of work done by applied force to bring a mass slowly from infinity to a given point in a gravitational field.U=-GMmr ....(1)Gravitational potential is the amount of work done by applied force to bring a unit mass slowly from infinity to a given point in a gravitational field.V=-GMr ....(2) from (1) and (2),U=Vm

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