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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by peaches They're delicious but would it

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kill him to shave every once in a while All

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right Margarets planning peach trees in her back yard She

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drops large peach pits into small holes one at a

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time Each pit has a mass of one kilogram and

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she dropped them in from a height A zero point

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five meters what's the potential energy of the pit At

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the instant it falls from her hand And here the

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potential answers way go day huh Well these are some

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really big peach pit But that's how we get politic

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peaches All right At the instant the peach pit is

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released from margaret's hands It's not moving it will But

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we're talking the very very incident it's released So all

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of the energy involved is potential energy not kinetic All

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right potential energy equals mass times gravity times height So

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all we have to do is plug in the Numbers

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1 kilogram times 10 meters per second squared times point

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five meters gives us an answer of five jewels So

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option is the correct answer To be sure to memorize

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These equations They'll come in handy a test time Another

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thing to remember Be nice to margaret Maybe she'll take

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us a peach pie if those trees whose work out

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