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Hammer falls off a roof top and strikes the ground with a certain kinetic energy. If it fell from a roof twice as tall, how would its kinetic energy compare?

Hammer falls off a roof top and strikes the ground with a certain kinetic energy. If it fell from a roof twice as tall, how would its kinetic energy compare?
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Hammer falls off a roof top and strikes the ground with a certain kinetic energy. If it fell

from a roof twice as tall, how would its kinetic energy compare?

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User Dustin Howett
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If the starting GPE is doubled than it's KE would also double.

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