What Does Negative Potential Energy Mean?
It's like saying you're in a basement when the street is the 1st floor. Just a point of reference thing.
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If potential energy is negative, it usually means the work done by the force (like gravity) is in the opposite direction of displacement.
Negative potential energy just means that the reference point you chose to measure from is above the point of interest. It's all relative!
Negative potential energy? Just means you're standing on the ground floor of a very interesting physics puzzle!
Negative potential energy indicates the object is in a bound state, like an electron orbiting a nucleus or a planet in a gravitational field.
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