energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects or stresses within itself, rather than its velocity
Potential energy is energy that an object stores based on where it is positioned or what stresses exist within it, rather than how fast it's moving. This matters because understanding this stored energy helps us predict how objects will behave and how much energy will be released when their position or internal state changes.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).