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To: James C. Bennett
Now, could you have calculated how much potential energy that rock on Earth possessed, prior to it being released in the other, massive planet?

Are you referring to two-body gravitational potential energy or total gravitational binding energy?

382 posted on 01/18/2011 4:58:47 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: SeeSac

I was referring to the total potential energy in the rock - whatever is stored in it on account of its configuration and position.

Isn’t it relative to the frame of reference?


383 posted on 01/18/2011 5:04:06 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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