The interaction responsible for this change in the object’s kinetic energy is, of course, the gravitational interaction between it and the Earth, so we are going to say that the “missing” kinetic ener...The interaction responsible for this change in the object’s kinetic energy is, of course, the gravitational interaction between it and the Earth, so we are going to say that the “missing” kinetic energy is temporarily stored as gravitational potential energy of the system formed by the Earth and the object.
