A person is riding on a Ferris wheel. When the wheel makes one complete turn, is the net work done by the gravitational force positive, negative, or zero?

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What to you think? After one complete turn the elevation remains unchanged.

Elevation determines gravitational potential energy

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inetial veiocity is zero

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