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. Is there net work done on an object at rest or moving at a constant velocity?
WHICH ONE ???

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If an object is moving with a constant velocity, then by definition it has zero acceleration. So there is no net force acting on the object. The total work done on the object is thus 0 (that's not to say that there isn't work done by individual forces on the object, but the sum is 0 ).

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