The gravitational potential energy formula can be derived by calculatingthe work an external force does to move an object in that gravitationalfield. In the case of universal gravitation, we integrated the force times aninfinitesimal bit of the path length. Why did we need to integrate asopposed to multiplying force times the total distance moved?the gravitational force relies on knowing the masses involvedwe only care about the external forcethe gravitational force is conservativethe gravitational force gets weaker as you move away

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