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Potential energy is the energy of a body or a system due to the position of the body or the arrangement of the particles of the system.
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Why does the gravitation potential in a uniform field have negative values?
In this case it's because of who's doing the work. The derivation you cite regards the work as being done by the gravitational field. This means in bringing the object from infinity, the gravitational …
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