GPE Quiz

Gravitation is a form of what?

• Potential Energy

• Kinetic Energy

True or False? A man in the act of skydiving has potential gravitational energy?

• True

• False

What is the formula of GPE?

• GPE=jgh

• GPE=mgh

• GPE=mhg

• GPE=mg

A helicopter is flying at a height of 1.5m. If it has 50J of G.P.E., what is the mass of the helicopter?

• 8.29kg

• 12kg

• 3.40kg

• 0.03kg

What is GPE

• Kinetic Energy

• Mass

• Gravitational Existence

• Gravitational Potential Energy

In the GPE=mgh equation, what does g always equal?

• 9.8

• 4

• 15

• 1.5

A block of mass 2.0 kg rests on a table. GPE=0, what will its gravitational potential energy be when it is raised 1.0 meter above the table?

• 33 J

• 9.2 J

• 19 J

• 19.6 J

A book weighing 8.0 Newtons is on a statue 75 m high. What is its GPE relative to the floor?

• 5880 J

• 600 J

• 231J

• 198 J

In the following scenario when will the GPE the highest? Sally is standing on a diving board leaning over the water, she then jumps as hard as she can going 3 feet into the air. Sally then dives into the water.

• Standing on the diving board

• In the air after jumping

• Diving, going towards the water

• Under the water

True or False, GPE always contains Kinetic Energy

• True

• False