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I am a little confused about the work do the to lift an object. I know that in lifting an object a net force must be applied in order to increase its velocity, but when the object stops, gravity applies an equal but opposite force, which means that in lifting an object no net work on the object is done (work kinetic-energy theorem). Thus, how does it have gravitational potential energy when it's at the the top if no net work was done to "store" that energy in the gravitational field?