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Directions: For each situation, you need to determine if the object has KE or GPE or both. Then find their values. Be sure to include the correct units.

1. A 2-kg bowling ball sits on top of a building that is 40 meters tall.

Is it KE GPE or Both

Show your work for finding the values of each type of energy the object has.

Respuesta :

KE = 0 (because velocity is 0)  

PE = mgh = 2kg*9.8m/s^2*40m= 784 joule

Explanation:

KE stands for kinetic energy. In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its stated velocity.

Having gained this energy during its acceleration, the body maintains this kinetic energy unless its speed changes. Since in this case, the building is still and therefore it does not have any kind of kinetic energy because there is not acceleration.