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I have a question about the conservation of energy. Imagine that there is an object on a level plane with zero kinetic energy and zero gravitational potential energy. Now imagine moving this object at some constant velocity in the y-direction for a few meters. Since it was moved at a constant velocity, there was no chance in kinetic energy, and thus no work was done. However, at the new height, there is non-zero potential energy mgh. If no work was done, how did the object go from having 0 kinetic energy and 0 potential energy to having 0 kinetic energy and mgh potential energy? Where am I going wrong?