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meawinner
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GPE and KE...please help! argh
Hi I am just finishing my AS physics coursework and just as i thought i understood it someone tells me something else. When you pick up an object i understand that it gains GPE and the amount of this depends on the height it is picked up to, hence GPE = mgh. But when you drop the object what happens to the energy? Does it all suddenly convert to KE, or when it is falling does the GPE gradually turn to KE?
In my coursework i calculated GPE and KE, assuming they should be roughly the same values and they were but then some1 said to me that they should be inversely proportional to each other.
Can some1 please help me thank-you.
meawinner
Hi I am just finishing my AS physics coursework and just as i thought i understood it someone tells me something else. When you pick up an object i understand that it gains GPE and the amount of this depends on the height it is picked up to, hence GPE = mgh. But when you drop the object what happens to the energy? Does it all suddenly convert to KE, or when it is falling does the GPE gradually turn to KE?
In my coursework i calculated GPE and KE, assuming they should be roughly the same values and they were but then some1 said to me that they should be inversely proportional to each other.
Can some1 please help me thank-you.
meawinner