energy of position

Now elastic potential energy is energy of position and does not change based on a given position.

However, if you lift the object farther above the ground, you have added potential energy (energy of position).

Sitting in the yo-yoist's palm, the yo-yo has a certain amount of potential energy (energy of position).

Force times distance... The energy of position is sometimes called GPE - gravitational potential energy.

The trick lies in the fact that the reactive mass or 'fuel' is itself mass and as such has potential energy of position when the ship leaves the Moon.

Potential energy (energy of position in a gravitational field) does not change unless (for example) the ice is atop a table and the melt-water runs off to the floor.

The reactive mass used in accelerating near Earth (that is to say, at the bottom of the gravity well) has lost its energy of position by falling down the gravity well.

But Luna also has energy of position; she sits at top of gravity well eleven kilometers per second deep and kept from falling in by curb only two and a half km/s high.