As per your syllabus, work done by a force perpendicular to the displacement (e.g. centripetal force in UCM) is which?
- Maximum
- Equal to F d
- Half F d
- Zero
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Correct answer: D. Zero
Your syllabus: cos 90° = 0
⇒ W = 0. Centripetal force does no work in uniform circular motion.