Acatapult’s lever holds a cannonball. the lever is attached to a tightly held rope. when the rope is released, the lever springs forward and launches the cannonball. when the rope is held tightly, which form of energy does it possess?

A rope held tightly posses elastic potential energy. when the rope is held tightly, it gets stretched by some amount and in a way the rope gets deformed. The rope tends to get its original shape back when the rope is released. some work is done to deform or stretch the rope against the restoring force between the particles and this work done reflects as elastic potential energy.

Elastic potential energy.

Explanation:

When the rope is held tightly, the rope has elastic potential energy, due to which the spring gets compressed. As it is released, the elastic potential energy of the spring is converted into the kinetic energy and the cannon balls moves forward.

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