General
Work and mechanical power
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General
Work and mechanical power

Authors : Jean ANDRZEJEWSKI, Jean-Christophe BERGE

Publication date: December 10, 1999 | Lire en français

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1. General

1.1 Work

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1.1.1 Definitions

Work is the process of transforming or exchanging energy that is the subject of Mechanics, the science of motion. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), in his synthesis of Newton's Law of Motion, laid the foundations of classical mechanics as we use it today.

When a particle moves along a trajectory C under the action of a force F...

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