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Potential Energy of an Object at a Height

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Two bodies of same masses aee placed at height h and 2h. Compare their gravitational potential energy.

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Gravitational pot. energy of A / Gravitational pot. energy of B
mgh / mg2h = 1/2 = 1 : 2

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