Work and Distance
Suppose you give a book a push and it slides across a table. To calculate the work you did, the distance in the above equation i
the distance the book moved.
• The distance in the work equation is the distance an object moves.
So the distance in the work equation is the distance the book moved while you were
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What is Power?
What does it mean to be powerful? Imagine two weightlifters lifting the same amount of weight the same vertical distance.
They both do the same amount of work. However, the amount of power they use depends on how long it took to do the work.
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is how quickly work is done.
The weightlifter who lifted the weight in less time is more powerful.
the force is being applied.
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