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How do you find the gravitational potential energy that an object gains given the work done against gravity to lift it?

If you do 1000 Joules of work to lift a bowling ball up, then how much gravitational potential energy does that bowling ball gain?

Summary

  1. FLift- lifting force
  2. h- the height to which we lift the ball
  3. WLift- work done to lift the ball
  4. PEg- gravitational potential energy
  5. J- Joules
  6. mg- weight of the ball

Notes

    1. WLift- work done to lift the ball.
    2. J- Joules
    3. PEg- graviational potential energy
    1. WLift- work done to lift the ball
    2. FLift- force needed to lift the ball
    3. h- height to which we lift the ball
    4. mg- weight of the ball
    5. J- Joules
    1. PEg- gravitational potential energy
    1. PEg- gravitational potential energy
    2. mg- weight of the ball
    3. h- height the ball is lifted to
    4. J- Joules
    1. PEg- gravitational potential energy
    1. J- Joules
    2. PEg- gravitational potential energy