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3.03 Work Considerations
Events of a man are described below. In each case the event is "incremental in time." Before the event is "no motion," "motion and the event commence, proceed," then "everything stops." Scenarios of the events make this clear. We study the man, modeled as a BODY (of mass, m). The work of each event (as defined by physics) is our consideration, only.
1) "Pull-up:" Initially a man (of mass, m) hangs vertically and motionless from a horizontal bar. The event commences as the man pulls himself upward. Finally the man's chin is motionless just above the bar. The elevation change of the man is "H."
"Pullup" |
"Stairs" |
"Rope Climb" |
What is the work of the man?
2) a "walk-up-stairs:"
The art work depicts a man ascending a flight of stairs. Our event is that the man ascends the entire flight - to the top. The elevation change of the man is H.
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A "rope climb:"
The art work depicts a man ascending a flight of stairs. Our event is that the man ascends the entire flight - to the top. The elevation change of the man is H.
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A "pulley lift:"
The scenario is a man uses his physical strength with a rope and pulley to elevate a mass lifted is H.
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In the simplest case, a man might use a rope and pulley to (by his own physical effort) raise himself to an elevation change, H.
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Compound "pulley self-lift;"
The art work depicts a man ascending a flight of stairs. Our event is that the man ascends the entire flight - to the top.
The elevation change of the man is H.
Work Considerations
Work is defined by physics, by engineering and elsewhere in our language.
- Work is a term of physics, thermodynamics and other usages as, say, "Let's go to work."
- Work happens by a force and its displacement. It is by "work" that energy is made quantitative.
- Work is not energy. Nothing possesses work. Energy has a "place." Work also has a "place" spoken of as the "to" (or the "from").
- different from energy.
Premise presently unwritted!