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All over the world, there are significant amounts of kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy, but what is there more of? In my opinion, I think there is an equal amount of kinetic energy (KE), which is the physical energy of motion and gravitational potential energy (GPE) which is the energy that has the potential to move due to its position. To help you understand these terms a little bit, some examples of KE would be throwing a snowball or riding a bike. Sledding down a hill would also be an example of KE. Examples of GPE would be waiting at the top of a hill to sled down (notice you would not be going down the hill). Some more examples of gravitational potential energy would be a poster hanging on a wall or a shelf placed on a wall. These seem like complete opposites, but according to my result over many experiments including a design for a swing ride at Elitches, I found that when there is little or no GPE, there happens to be a greater amount of KE, and vis versa. This fact is the basic explanation to why I believe there is an equal amount of KE and GPE. For instance, if you lift a leaf in the sky, you just created GPE. If you were to drop that leaf, the GPE would turn into KE. This action goes in both ways balancing out the amounts of kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy. If you have a certain amount of GPE and it converts to KE, then the KE can’t be greater than the GPE because there is no more energy left making them equal to eachother. The world contains endless amounts of energy, more specifically kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy. These two types of energies, in my opinion, are equal in size all over the world.

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