questions on work power and energy

Potential energy is the energy possessed by an object by virtue of its position or condition. Kinetic energy = 1/2 mv 2 Potential energy = mgh Law of conservation of energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can be..

Introduction - For a layman the term 'work' implies any activity resulting in muscular or mental exertion. In physics, however, the term has a different meaning. It represents a physical quantit..

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Newton's laws of motion help us to analyse many kinds of motion. But the analysis is complicated, requiring details about the motion that we simply do not kno..

From times immemorial, man has used machines to help him in his work. Today, we are dependent on machine for almost every task. When we think of machines we always tend to think of big and complicated units with many moving parts like wheels and rollers and gears and shafts. In Phys..

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A contractor wishes to lift a load of bricks from the sidewalk to the top of a building by means of a winch. Since we know the expression for work, we can calculate work to be done by the force applied by the winch to lift the load. We are interested in the rate at which it is d..