YES!
A book, no matter where it sits, is an organized and bound assembly of paper with information stored on it. The book has some mass, and like any mass, its gravitational potential energy relative to the floor can be defined in terms of its mass and its distance above the floor.
No. The potential energy of an obect also depends on its mass.
Potential energy.
no, but the POTENTIAL energy may equal the work done to life the book to the shelf
There is no direct relationship because the potential energy of the book on the shelf is defined relative to an arbitrary base line at which the potential energy would be zero. The work done in raising the book is the increase in the potential energy of book from however much PE it had in its previous location - for example, on a lower shelf.
Gravitational potential energy
a book sitting up on a shelf. gravity can potentionally pull it down if pushed.
Gravitational potential energy is a type of energy that an object possesses because of where it is placed in a gravitational field. The higher the object the more energy it has, so if you had an object that was on the ground and then you put it on a high shelf then it would have more energy when it is on the shelf.
potential
Increased
Place it on a higher shelf. If it has to stay on the same shelf, then its potential energy can only be increased by adding some pages to it.
Put it on a higher shelf. Or a lower one.
potential energy
Gravitational Potential Energy, also known as GPE.
Picking up the box gives it kinetic energy. When the box is sitting on the shelf, it has potential energy.
Because potential energy is directly proportional to all the factors that yield it's value. Potential Energy = mass * gravitational acceleration * height So, with everything else being constant increasing the height will increase the potential energy.
A book, no matter where it sits, is an organized and bound assembly of paper with information stored on it. The book has some mass, and like any mass, its gravitational potential energy relative to the floor can be defined in terms of its mass and its distance above the floor.