Potential Energy of a System Quick Check

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If a monkey drops a banana off of a cliff, where are the potential and kinetic energies of the banana equal?(1 point)
Responses

at the bottom
at the bottom

halfway down
halfway down

a quarter of the way down
a quarter of the way down

at the top
at the top
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Answer 1

The potential and kinetic energies of the banana will be equal halfway down the cliff. At that point, the banana has lost half of its original potential energy and gained an equal amount of kinetic energy due to its fall. So, the correct response is:

halfway down