work power and energy

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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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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Introduction - 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..

Summary - In physics, the concept of energy plays the role of the money. Work is transferred to or from an object by means of force acting on the body. Energy transferred to the body is positive work and the energy transferred from the body is negat..