Radha is holding a pot, filled with water, on her head and is standing at a place. Is she doing some work?

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Solution

As Radha is just standing, there will no displacement by her.
As we know, work done is given by
$W o r k d o n e = F o r c e x d i s p l a c e m e n t = F o r c e X 0 = 0$
Therefore, though she is standing with a pot filled with water, the work done will be zero.

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