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What is potential energy on the surface of earth?

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What is potential energy on the surface of earth?

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Taking Earth’s surface as the reference level, the potential energy of a body on the surface of Earth is zero, since its height (h = 0) and (U = mgh = 0).

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Chapter 2: Work, Power and Energy - EXERCISE [Page 31]

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Goyal Brothers Prakashan A New Approach to ICSE Physics [English] Class 10
Chapter 2 Work, Power and Energy
EXERCISE | Q 15. (d) | Page 31
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