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The law of conservation of energy, which states that the amount of energy in a system is constant. For questions about Earth's environment, see the climate-science tag instead.

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Total energy of a rocket launch

I'm wondering how the total energy of a combined Earth-rocket system is conserved in a rocket launch? Before launch, kinetic and gravitational potential energy of the rocket are 0. It then launches, a …
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