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They're hardly ever equal.

One of the few situations where they're equal is when you drop a weight to the ground

from some height. Then, the gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy are equal

when it's exactly in the middle of the drop, and the kinetic energy it has when it hits

the ground is the same as the gravitational potential energy it had when you let it go.

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