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If distance increases does potential energy increase or decrease?

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Decrease because if one increase the other has to decrease
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Therefore having the bodies closer together increases the potential energy stored, and conversely increasing their distance reduces the potential energy. In this case the potential energy is always positive, again dropping to zero as the force decreases to zero with the bodies very far apart.

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