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What can be said about a formula for the gravitational potential energy of a body?

Correct answer D. It has no general formula

Explanation

The expression mgh holds only near the Earth's surface where g is constant; far away, g varies with distance and P.E. must be found as -GMm/r, so mgh is not general.

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