Use It Once And For All

The dark side of potential energy! When your physics teacher says you have "great potential," they're talking about your academic abilities—but in physics, potential energy is literally stored energy waiting to be converted to kinetic energy. Standing on a rooftop means you've got maximum gravitational potential energy (mgh, where h is at its highest). One small step and... well, that potential becomes kinetic real quick! This is basically a physics student taking their teacher's encouragement way too literally. Converting potential to kinetic: technically following instructions, catastrophically missing the point.