A particle in the -plane is acted upon by a force field described by the equation below: How much work does the force field do on the particle if the particle makes one complete revolution over a unit circle centered on the origin?
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notice that the force is conservative since ∂ y ∂ F x = ∂ x ∂ F y it follows that the work done on a closed path is zero.