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What is gravitational potential energy?
Gravitational potential energy or simply potential energy is just the energy of position. As you can see, the word "potential" sends your brain a message, that you know for a fact, means not being active.
So with that in mind, you now know that potential energy is stored energy that has the ability to become active. That energy can become active if you were to change the object's height of the position or by including the force of gravity.

What is potential energy?


Reputable Source: http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/energy/u5l1b.cfm
