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Name the forces acting on a plastic bucket containing water held above ground level in your hand. Discuss why the forces acting on the bucket do not bring a change in its state of motion.

Upward muscular force applied by hand and downward gravitational force applied by earth ; The two forces being equal and opposite balance each other and hence do not bring a change in the state of motion.


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