Essential University Physics
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Chapter 7.1, Problem 7.1GI
Suppose it takes the same amount of work to push a trunk straight across a rough floor as it does to lift a weight the same distance straight upward. If both trunk and weight are moved instead on identically shaped curved paths between the same two points as before, is the work (a) still the same for both, (b) greater for the weight, or (c) greater for the trunk?
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