Re: Car acceleration

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Robert Carlson wrote:

> This is confusing to me and I suspect confusing to students.  Why not
> identify the force that is really doing work and go from there?

In this particular case I wouldn't do that because (ignoring air
resistance and rolling resistance) there *is* no force that is
doing "real work" on the car.

John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm