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Can kinetic energy of a system be increased without applying any external force on the system?

Yes. For the understanding, let’s consider an isolated system of single objects which is in freefall. Here the net force on the system is zero but as the velocity keeps on increasing due to gravitational force of attraction, this in turn increases the kinetic energy of the object without any external force on the system.


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