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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (19984)2/1/2008 3:23:08 PM
From: HPilot  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
Maurice, I'm trying to straighten out a guy who thinks that somehow moving a mass through a distance equals some specific amount of work. It does not.

Thats only because you read between my lines and come up with stuff I didn't say. Moving an object with a force is work. You keep thinking it must be in specific terms using gravatational and that weight is not mass. Weight and mass are equal on earth. When moving an object x distance with y weight force on the earth, using the same work in space or the moon will result in moving the object a further distance because the object is lighter in weight, but the same mass, so a gravitational constant is used for Joules and Watts. But that does not mean that it is not work when ft-lbs are used instead.
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