Work: The Scientific Definition
This text discusses what it means to do work; what is work; real world connections: when work happens; calculating work; applying the science practices: boxes on floors; and applying the science practices: force-displacement diagrams. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.
Topics
- basal metabolic rate
- chemical energy
- conservation of mechanical energy
- conservative force
- efficiency
- electrical energy
- energy
- fossil fuels
- friction
- gravitational potential energy
- horsepower
- joule
- kilowatt-hour
- kinetic energy
- law of conservation energy
- mechanical energy
- metabolic rate
- net work
- nonconservative force
- nuclear energy
- potential energy
- potential energy of a spring
- power
- radiant energy
- renewable forms of energy
- thermal energy
- useful work
- watt
- work
- work-energy theorem