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S3.2 Work

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In everyday life, the term ‘work’ is applied to any activity requiring the exertion of muscular or mental effort. In physics the term is used in a much more specific sense namely to quantify the amount of energy transferred to an object by a force acting on it.
 

[A] Definition

[B] Traps for the unwary!

Learning Resources

Textbook: HRW Chapter 7. HRW starts with kinetic energy, then moves on to define work. Otherwise the treatments are identical.
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