Question

A baseball is sitting on a raised bench. A player accidentally knocks the baseball off the bench. Which statement best describes what will happen to the baseball’s energy during its fall?(1 point)
Responses

None of the baseball’s potential energy will be converted to kinetic energy.
None of the baseball’s potential energy will be converted to kinetic energy.

Most of the baseball’s potential energy will be converted to kinetic energy.
Most of the baseball’s potential energy will be converted to kinetic energy.

The baseball will lose kinetic energy during its fall.
The baseball will lose kinetic energy during its fall.

All of the baseball’s potential energy will be converted to kinetic energy.
All of the baseball’s potential energy will be converted to kinetic energy.

Answer 1

Most of the baseball’s potential energy will be converted to kinetic energy.

Explanation: as it falls gravitational potential energy is converted into kinetic energy, but a small amount is lost to air resistance and sound/heat, so not absolutely all of it.