Q. During the free fall of the object, the decrease in potential energy, at any point in its path, appears as an equal amount of increase in ______.
Answer: kinetic energy
Notes: The sum of kinetic energy and potential energy of an object is its total mechanical energy. During the free fall of the object, the decrease in potential energy, at any point in its path, appears as an equal amount of increase in kinetic energy. There is thus a continual transformation of gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy.