What is potential energy ?

When the displacement in S.H.M. IS 1/3 ^rd of the amplitude. What fraction of total energy is kinetic energy and what fraction is potential energy ?

Answer the following questions : What is gravitational potential energy ?

What is the potential energy of the equal positive point charges of 1muC each, held 2m apart in air-

The total energy of an electron in the first excited state of the hydrogen atom is about -3.4eV . What is the potential energy of the electron in this state?

The total energy of a particle executing S.H.M. is 80 J . What is the potential energy when the particle is at a distance of 3/4 of amplitude from the mean position

Solve the following examples / numerical problems: If the body performs uniform circular motion around the earth at a height of 3600 km from the earth's surface, what will be its gravitational potential energy ?

A short bar magnet of magnetic moment m= 0.32frac(A)(m^2) is placed in a uniform magnetic field of 0.15T. If the bar is free to rotate in the plane of the field, which orientation would correspond to its stable equilibrium? What is the potential energy in each case?

A short bar magnet of magnetic moment m= 0.32frac(A)(m^2) is placed in a uniform magnetic field of 0.15T. If the bar is free to rotate in the plane of the field, which orientation would correspond to its unstable equilibrium? What is the potential energy in each case?

A particle executes simple harmonic motion of amplitude A. (i) At what distance from the mean positio is its kinetic energy equal to its potential energy? (ii) At what points is its speed half the maximum speed?

A particle is performing linear S.H.M.at a point A, on the path , its potential energy is three times kinetic energy . At another point B on the same path, its kinetic energy is 3 times the potential energy. The ratio of the kinetic energy at A to its kinetic energy at B is