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Adam and Bobby are twins who have the same weight. Adam drops to the ground from a tree at the same time that Bobby begins his descent down a frictionless slide. If they both start at the same height above the ground, how do their kinetic energies compare when they hit the ground

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User Sydnee
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Answer:

They are the same.

Both have potential energy of M g H and that is the energy that will be converted to kinetic energy for each twin,

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