EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Potential energy, expressed in science as U, is energy that is stored within an object, not in motion but capable of becoming active. When at rest, every object has rest mass potential energy; if the object is in a position to be affected by gravity and to fall, it has gravitational potential energy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Potential energy of an object is found in its position, not its motion. It is the energy of position.

Detailed explanation-3: -Energy stored in an object due to its position is Potential Energy. Energy that a moving object has due to its motion is Kinetic Energy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Potential energy is the latent energy in an object at rest, and is one of two forms of energy. The other form, kinetic energy, is the energy expressed by an object in motion.