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The potatoes are almost all water. Cutting the amount of water in half cuts the amount of potatoes in half. What's "paradoxical" is...

Thank you. This is it. It is not even new to me. I read about it probably more than once, but I had completely forgotten about it. This...

By convention we usually assume that as the separation distance increases beyond all bounds, the potential energy approaches zero...

There are lots of opportunities to sell your textbooks to places like this. In my experience they won't give you much if anything for...

Yup. Many students have an answer-making strategy, using it in the hopes of passing a class. They lack a sense-making strategy. Then...

Excellent answer to the OP's question. In principle it is indeed an issue of being practical. Overwhelmingly so.

In principle, we could completely ignore statistical mechanics and thermal energy, and explain everything as you would like, in terms of...

Well, which is it? Fine or awful? Your "scripts" seem like a typical textbook to me. Sometimes they just don't match your learning...

No. Based on the OP's response they contain course material. Plus, you never get more than one syllabus and the OP has referred to...

"No forces" and "zero net force" are in fact the same thing, since we are considering a single particle. If you have a particle at...

Yes, but the OP's issue, as I understand it, is that "no forces" and "zero net force" are not the same.

Hmmm... That's a tough question. To investigate on your own you need a college-level introductory physics background before you can dig...

Yes. Thanks all. Your comments resolved the ambiguity about internal energy and potential energy.

You need at least two objects (usually modeled as particles) interacting with each other (via a conservative force) to have potential...

Potential energy of one object is indeed zero. I agree with that but don't understand what you mean by an origin or by "another point"...