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Show that the sum of kinetic energy and potential energy (ie, total mechanical energy) is always conserved in the case of a freely falling body under gravity (with air resistance neglected from a height by finding it when (i) the body is at the top c) the body has fallen a distance in the body has reached the ground.

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