Why is gravitational potential energy negative?
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Why is gravitational potential energy negative, and what does that mean?
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Is gravitational potential energy proportional or inversely proportional to distance?
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Why is negative times negative = positive?
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In wave motion of a string both kinetic energy and potential energy are minimum at $y=y_\text{max}$ then why does the string come down again?
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Why is the electric field is the negative gradient of potential energy function?
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Work done by gravity on falling object does not seem to equal change in mechanical energy
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Self-energy of a uniformly charged, non-conducting sphere, using energy density formula
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How much energy does lowering an object into a black hole generate?
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Why does time in Minkowski's space have the opposite sign of the space coordinates?
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Why mass & energy bend spacetime?
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If gravity is a pseudoforce in general relativity, then why is a graviton necessary?
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Why is the second order perturbative correction to the ground state energy always down?
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Why does a system try to minimize potential energy?
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Potential energy and the work energy theorem
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Magnetic Potential Energy
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Reason for vanishing of the covariant derivative of energy-momentum tensor of matter in general relativity
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How to understand whether potential energy increases or decreases?