When a ball is hung from a vertical spring, it stretches the spring. As it drops, it loses gravitational potential energy , but this does not at all show up as kinetic energy. What happens to the gravitational potential energy ?

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1.	When a ball is hung from a vertical spring, it stretches the spring. As it drops, it loses gravitational potential energy , but this does not at all show up as kinetic energy. What happens to the gravitational potential energy ?
Answer» The gravitational potentail energy is converted to kinetic energy and the elastic potentic eneergy of the spring. At the bottom, it is all elastic potential energy.

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When a ball is hung from a vertical spring, it stretches the spring. As it drops, it loses gravitational potential energy , but this does not at all show up as kinetic energy. What happens to the gravitational potential energy ?

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