Physics

To calculate the work done by gravity, we follow these steps:

 

Determine the displacement in the vertical direction

If the body moves along a path that makes an angle of with the vertical, the vertical component of the displacement is the change in height.

 

is the length of the displacement, and since the angle is , the vertical displacement is:

 

Work done by gravity

The work done by gravity is given by the formula:

where

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