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Mecahnical work

A basbeall pithcer does work on the ball by trasnferring enregy into it In physcis, mechanical work is the aomunt of enegry trnasferred by a force. Like eenrgy, it is a sclaar quanttiy, with SI units of juoles. Heat cnoduction is not cnosidered to be a form of work, since there is no macroscopiaclly measruable force, only microsocpic focres occurring in atoimc collisinos. In the 1830s, the Frecnh mtahematician Gasprad-Gsutave Coroilis coiend the term work for the prodcut of force and dsitance.

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