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A camera weighing 23 N falls from a small drone hovering 30 m overhead and enters free fall. What is the gravitational potential energy change (in J) of the camera from the drone to the ground if you take the following reference points?
What is the gravitational potential energy (in J) of the camera at the following times if the reference point of zero gravitational potential energy is taken to be a second person looking out of a building 40 m from the ground?
before it falls from the drone
after the camera lands on the ground
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