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Chapter 7.1, Problem 1BE
Return to the Chapter-Opening Question, page 163, and answer it again now. Try to explain why you may have answered differently the first time.
CHAPTER-OPENING QUESTION—Guess now!
You push very hard on a heavy desk, trying to move it. You do work on the desk:
- (a) Whether or not it moves, as long as you are exerting a force.
- (b) Only if it starts moving.
- (c) Only if it doesn’t move.
- (d) Never—it does work on you.
- (e) None of the above.
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