Question

What is the relationship between kinetic and potential energy of a falling object

Answer 1

Answer:

See the explanation below.

Explanation:

According to the law of energy conservation. This can be transformed from potential energy to kinetic or vice versa.

For example, when you have a body at rest at a height with respect to the ground level, this body possesses potential energy with respect to the ground, but the moment that the body falls the potential energy decreases as it loses height with respect to the ground, but as the potential energy decreases, the kinetic energy increases, that is to say, the potential energy is transformed into kinetic energy as the body is falling.

As the energy relationship is maintained we can say that the potential and kinetic energies are equal.

$E_{pot}=m*g*h\\E_{kin}=\frac{1}{2} *m*v^{2} \\E_{pot}=E_{kin}$