Understanding Potential Energy

The video tutorial explains potential energy, highlighting its nature as stored energy and its presence in various forms, such as in a stretched rubber band or food. It then focuses on gravitational potential energy, which depends on an object's height and weight, and illustrates this concept with examples like bridges, airplanes, and trees. The tutorial also provides the equation for calculating gravitational potential energy.

What happens to the potential energy of an object when it is released from a height?

Describe an example of potential energy in everyday life.