When a body falls freely to the ground, its velocity reduces to zero and the sum total of kinetic energy and potential energy also becomes zero.Does it violate the law of conservation of energy?

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No, actually the energy converts to other energy like sound, vibration of ground, the heat because of the collision between the ground and the object. The sum of all this energy will be equal the initial energy of the object.

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