Question

James and Juan were at the highest point in the football stadium, dropping water balloons on people below. Many of the balloons did not break, so the boys added more water to the balloons. What impact did adding water have on the balloons' potential energy? A) It had no impact; it just made the balloons bigger. B) The gravitational potential energy increased because the mass increased. C) The gravitational potential energy decreased because the diameter increased. D) The gravitational potential energy remained constant because they did not increase the height.

Answer 1

Correct the answer is b

Answer 2

When you add more water to the balloon, it makes it heavier. Therefore it would weigh the balloon down ( increasing mass) and increasing the energy to plummet down. So the answer is B.