Work (physics)

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In physics, work is the amount of energy transferred by a force.

Like energy, it is a scalar quantity, with SI units of joules. Heat conduction is not considered to be a form of work, since there is no macroscopically measurable force, only microscopic forces occurring in atomic collisions. In the 1830s, the French mathematician Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis coined the term work for the product of force and distance.[1]


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  1. Jammer, Max (1957). Concepts of Force, Dover Publications, Inc.. ISBN 0-486-40689-X.

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