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When applying Newton’s second law of motion, the forces and accelerations are those at an instant, and thus give instantaneous solutions; however, in many cases the relationship between the forces and the resulting change of motion over a finite interval needs to be considered. The concept of work, together with the closely associated concept of energy, give a method for doing this where the interval is one of displacement.
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© 1990 G. H. Ryder and M. D. Bennett
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Ryder, G.H., Bennett, M.D. (1990). Work and Energy. In: Mechanics of Machines. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21112-8_5
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