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If Gravitational potential energy increase with height then why it is 0 at infinity?
Due to MGH relation, if we increase height then potential energy increases. Then why it is zero at infinity?
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Gravitational Potential Energy and Zero Points
I have two questions.
1) The first one has to do with the formula for deriving Gravitational Potential Energy. I learned that, for the derivation of Gravitational Potential Energy given large ...
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Why is potential energy negative when orbiting in a gravitational field?
I had to do a problem, and part of it was to find the mechanical energy of satellite orbiting around mars, and I had all of the information I needed. I thought the total mechanical energy would be the ...
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