In which one of the following systems is there a decrease in gravitational potential energy? group of answer choices
a. a girl jumps down from a bed.
b. a spring is compressed horizontally
c. a crate rests at the bottom of an inclined plane water is forced upward through s pipe
d. a car ascends a steep hill

a. A girl jumps down from a bed.

Explanation:

Gravitational Potential Energy is the energy stored by a body at a certain height above the ground. Unlike kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy is associated with the position of bodies, and not with their movement. In other words, gravitational potential energy is the energy that a body possesses due to the fact of being under the action of gravity and mathematically is given by:

Where:

So, if the girl is jumping from her bed at a certain height h with respect to the ground, her gravitational potential energy is decreasing more and more, because her height tends towards 0 during her fall.

quantum mechanics or quantum physics is physics of very small objects (particles) and physical entities.

quantum physics has some parallels to our macro world and some pretty unique ideas which theoretically and mathematically proven to be true even though we will never be able to access them because of our size.

there are many types of particles: subatomic, elementary etc.

subatomic means they are smaller than atom, elementary means they are at the very basis of everything.

subatomic particles are for eg. protons, neutrons but not electrons.

elementary particles are categorised into 3 groups by what they do.

these 3 groups are quarks, leptons and bosons.

light for example is a particle more precisely a photon a part of leptons.

proton (subatomic particle) is made out of 2 up quarks and 1 down quark each of these has a fractional charge like . (i crazy)

most famous scientist who contributed to this physics are:

the topic itself us understand a lot and will probably be vastly used in the future (quantum computers, understanding the big bang,

we also must not forget quantum effects like:

and there is more. but probably too much for this answer to be consistent due to my average understanding of this topic.

hope this you understand quantum mechanics a little more. i'm not an expert in the topic (so don't be like wth if you are an expert) but i'm very interested in it.

anyways quantum physics is a very hard topic (harder than physics (perhaps)) therefore searching for every information there is about it and learning it is unfortunately impossible (you can only specialise into 1 - 3 things or more (perhaps

have fun and i wish you luck!

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