Wally lifts a box off the floor and put it on a shelf. Does he do any work? If not why? If so,...
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Wally lifts a box off the floor and put it on a shelf. Does he do any work? If not why? If so, what energy change is occurring?
Work Done
Work done is defined as the dot product of the force and the displacement. Displacement is defined as the smallest length of the path between the initial and final position of the object.
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View this answerThere would be no work done by the Wally because the displacement of the box is zero. Because after lifting, the object has been put back to the...
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