An automated robotic arm on a Mars lander lifts a rock core sample of mass 0.75 kg vertically upwards through a height of 3.2 m to place it inside an onboard spectrometer.
The gravitational field strength on Mars is g=3.7 N/kgg = 3.7\text{ N/kg}g=3.7 N/kg.
Calculate the change in gravitational potential energy of the sample.
Use the equation:
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