Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 3:43pm.
The gravitional potential energy is M*g*H , assuming zero energy is defined as the value at the floor.
g is the acceleration of gravity, 9.8 m/s^2, which you should already be familiar with.
All you have to do is multiply those three numbers. The answer will have units of Joules.
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