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As an ideal pendulum (ignoring friction) swings from the bottom to the top of its arc, t...

As an ideal pendulum (ignoring friction) swings from the bottom to the top of its arc, the string is always exerting a force on the ball. Why then is the gravitational potential energy at the top not greater than the kinetic energy at the bottom?

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