Potential energy and gravity

Using Newton's universal gravitation, what is the gravitational potential energy of an object?

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[siddhantjadhav]

Such a simplification of concept of Work and Potential Energy.. Thank you very much sir..

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[IsmailHossain-xk]

I have a question. If you were to set r intitial to infinity, that means we are applying an external force to the body opposite to the direction of The conservative force. The body moves from infinity to r final(within the field of The Mass M). So, we are doing a negative work here. But earlier you took the angle for dot product 0 degree. Shouldn't it be 180? 5:43

[ibrahimnizamani]

I don't get, how you took r(initial) approaches to infinity. Can you elaborate it abit please?

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[sushantsingh]

A ball placed at a top a hill always wanted to go downwards direction as it has potential energy at top of hill and realises it and it rolls down as in motion uses kinetic energy. But what that the place where the Object (ball) assume that it is in the rest position is not at the rest it have to go more downward it is in a false vacuum, what will happen then..

[sushantsingh]

Honourable Sir, I Have a question, what about a object placed at rest, does it have potential energy (it has no other contact.) A student from India... Thanks

[TeacherNorainikhal]

Why set reference point at infinity not the centre of the earth

[samialsharari]

How come we reached to potential energy from integrating the work?

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