KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -When an object falls freely towards the ground, its potential energy decreases and kinetic energy increases. As the object hits the hard ground, all its kinetic energy gets converted into heat energy and sound energy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hence, when an object falls freely, its potential energy gets converted into kinetic energy. When the object hits the ground, its kinetic energy gets converted into heat energy and sound energy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Due to the acceleration due to gravity, the velocity of the freely falling object increases while falling. Thus, the kinetic energy increases whereas the potential energy decrease with the decrease in the height of the object in the case of a freely falling body.

Detailed explanation-4: -As an object falls from rest, its gravitational potential energy is converted to kinetic energy. Conservation of energy as a tool permits the calculation of the velocity just before it hits the surface.

Detailed explanation-5: -On its way down the object loses height and gains speed; it thus loses gravitational potential energy and gains kinetic energy. One can then say that the gravitational potential energy is being transformed to kinetic energy as the object falls.