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Grade 11General Physics

any object in earth surface has potential energy = mgh=0 again,any satelite in earth surface has potential energy = -GMm/R that is not equal to 0.why?

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11 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Shobhit Varshney
11 Years ago
Dear student,
Actually. the potential energy of any object is given by -GMm/R.
Satellite has significant value of mass so , we use this expression.We consider the mass to be very small wrt to earth so, we use ‘mgh’ , which is the derived from this expression only.